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Sketch of Man and a Woman Planting Potatoes
Vincent van Gogh, 9 April 1885

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  • Part of Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh with sketches of The Potato Eaters, Man and a Woman Planting Potatoes and Two Women Working in the Fields
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Sketch of Man and a Woman Planting Potatoes

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nuenen, 9 April 1885

pen and ink on paper, 6.5 cm x 9 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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  • 1885
  • Nuenen
  • drawing
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  • genre picture
  • landscape (representation)
  • peasant life
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Part of Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh with sketches of The Potato E...

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F-number
F1225
JH-number
JH0729
Object number
d0281V1971
Credits (obliged to state)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Dimensions
6.5 cm x 9 cm
Edition 2009

Letter number: 492

Read the full letter on vangoghletters.org

Popular quotes in this letter

Letter #492 To Theo van Gogh
be ourselves with faults and qualities
Nikolina , Greece Angry
Letter #492 To Theo van Gogh
if anything good happens in my work, to consider half of it as your own creation.
Lisa , Heart Loving
Letter #492 To Theo van Gogh
’d rather not sign any of them yet, though, because I wouldn’t like to have them circulating like paintings, so that one would have to buy them back later should one make something of a name.
Eirini , Greece Angry

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The Potato Eaters, 1885
The Potato Eaters, 1885