Peasant Woman Lifting Potatoes
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Date
- 1885 ; Nunen \/ Nuenen , Netherlands
- Style
- Realism
- Genre
- Sketch and study
- Location
- Van Gogh Museum
'Peasant Woman Lifting Potatoes' (1885) by Vincent van Gogh, created in Nuenen, Netherlands, exemplifies his early focus on rural life and Realism. This artwork captures the gritty labor of peasant farmers, reflecting Van Gogh’s deep empathy for the working class. Executed primarily using chalk on paper, it serves as a sketch and study for his larger compositions. Though Van Gogh’s fame emerged posthumously, works like this reveal his commitment to depicting everyday struggles with sincerity and detail, grounding his later, more expressive style in an authentic representation of life.
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