Wheatfield with sheaves and reaper
1888 Toledo Museum of Art
About this artwork
This painting captures a vibrant rural landscape during the harvest season in Arles, France, depicting a lone reaper amidst fields of golden wheat. It is one of several works by Van Gogh focusing on the theme of wheatfields and agricultural labor.
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Van Gogh found deep symbolic meaning in wheatfields and reapers, often associating them with the cycles of life and death, and humanity's toil. He painted many such scenes during his time in Arles, viewing the reaper not just as a worker, but as a representation of human existence and its inevitable end, even seeing a 'symbol of death' in the reaper.
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Wheatfield with sheaves and reaper
Vincent van Gogh, 1888
