织布者，和高椅上的婴儿

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), 纽恩南, 1884年1月

纸上铅笔，钢笔及墨水，水彩, 31.5 cm x 39.9 cm
Credits: 凡高美术馆，阿姆斯特丹（文森特·凡高基金会）

Van Gogh’s parents lived in the Brabant village of Nuenen, which was the workplace of many weavers. Van Gogh had been keen to draw and paint them for quite some time. He felt the subject was a gap in the market, since it had received almost no attention from other artists.

There was little room to draw inside the cramped weavers’ cottages. Even so, Van Gogh often made sketches. One eyewitness reported that he sometimes had to sit in the passageway to do so. Finished drawings like this were made later, in his studio.