Chronology by Place

Van Gogh in Nuenen, 1883–1885: The Dark Dutch Years — Page 3

Weavers at the loom, peasant heads and the potato eaters: earth tones, thick shadow, almost no colour.

104 canvases, dated 1883–1885. Held by Van Gogh Museum (24), Kröller-Müller Museum (21) and 25 other collections.

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Two years in his parents' village in Brabant, painting weavers at their looms and the heads of the people who worked the land. The palette is earth: bitumen, brown, a green that reads almost black. He wanted the pictures to look like the colour of a dusty potato, and said so. The Potato Eaters comes out of this stretch and is the summary of it.