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Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (After Millet)

Vincent van Gogh

Artist Vincent van Gogh

Date Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Collection Van Gogh Museum

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About the Artist

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch (1853–1890)

Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, born in Zundert, Netherlands, revolutionized modern art with his emotive brushwork and vivid color palettes. Despite a turbulent life marked by mental illness and poverty, he produced over 2,000 artworks, including masterpieces like The Starry Night and Sunflowers. His career began in earnest at age 27 after abandoning earlier pursuits in art dealing and religious ministry. Van Gogh’s work, initially dismissed as chaotic, later became foundational to Expressionism and Fauvism. He died by suicide at 37, leaving a legacy that reshaped 20th-century art.

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Artwork Story

Vincent van Gogh’s “Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (After Millet)” captures the raw, unglamorous beauty of rural labor with thick, swirling brushstrokes that seem to pulse with life. The woman, bent over her work, becomes part of the golden field around her—her dress echoing the hues of the harvested grain. Van Gogh reimagines Jean-François Millet’s original composition through his own vibrant lens, transforming quiet dignity into something almost feverish with movement and emotion. You can almost feel the heat of the day in the yellows and oranges, the weight of the sheaves in her hands.

This wasn’t just a study of another artist’s work; it was van Gogh wrestling with themes that haunted him—the sacredness of toil, the connection between people and land. Look closely, and the painting thrums with contradictions: the woman’s exhaustion and her quiet strength, the chaos of the brushwork and the harmony of the scene. Even the sky feels alive, not as a passive backdrop but as another character in this drama of survival and seasons.