缝衣妇女
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), 纽恩南, 1885年3月-4月
布面油画,
43.2 cm x 34.2 cm
Credits: 凡高美术馆，阿姆斯特丹（文森特·凡高基金会）
Van Gogh painted this woman when he was preparing to paint his now world-famous picture The Potato Eaters. Would he paint the scene by daylight or lamplight? He couldn’t decide, so he was experimenting with all sorts of interior light effects.
In this picture, he was attempting to paint a figure against the light. It was hard to do, he wrote to his brother Theo, ‘it’s a difficult effect’. With the almost black head of the woman and using a lot of white in the window, he succeeded in achieving a strong contrast. He concentrated the light from the window mainly on the woman’s hands.
