Vincent van Gogh · End of June - July 1888 · Plaine de la Crau, Arles
The Reapers, F545Reproduction of oil painting on canvas
Two workers harvest a huge yellow field in front of Arles, while a red train crosses the horizon between the smoke and the city's bell towers.
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The Reapers, F545Vincent van Gogh · End of June - July 1888 · Rodin Museum, Paris
End of June - July 1888Dating
73 × 54 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
Rodin Museum, ParisConservation
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Look at the work
The modern harvest facing the city of Arles
Van Gogh painted the Crau plain in the summer of 1888, when ripe wheat transformed the landscape into a golden expanse. In this vertical version, a couple of harvesters work in the center; their tiny gestures give the measure of a field which occupies almost the entire height of the canvas.
The silhouette of Arles closes the horizon with its roofs, towers and chimneys. In front of it, a red train advances laterally, releasing steam. The artist thus brings together the manual work of the fields, the industrial city and the railway network in the same solar vision.
The composition appears dominated by a single color, but the yellow is crossed by ocher, pink, green and blue: a light constructed by the touch rather than a simple flat.
Composition, touch and color
Three observations specific to this painting
The F545 version can be recognized by its vertical format, the two central figures and the red train placed in front of the bluish profile of Arles.
01
A monumental field
The very high horizon line leaves most of the canvas to the wheat. The figures appear small, but their central position makes them immediately readable.
02
A red train
The locomotive and its wagons form a thin horizontal line. The steam responds to the smoke from the chimneys and animates the boundary between field and city.
03
Several yellows
Gold, lemon, ocher and beige overlap in wheat. Blue and purple touches prevent the light from becoming uniform.
Documented benchmarks
Precisely identify the original work
Inventory P.07304 and references F545/JH1477 precisely identify the painting from the Rodin Museum among the numerous harvests painted in 1888 and 1889.
Collection
P.07304
The painting entered the Rodin Museum by donation in 1916 and remains presented in the museum's permanent collection.
Catalog
F545 · JH1477
These references distinguish the view of Arles from the fields of Saint-Rémy's compositions devoted to the solitary reaper.
Detail
The railway
The train visible in front of Arles introduces modern speed into a harvest scene whose gestures remain entirely manual.
The painter must preserve the immense scale of the field and the tiny details of the horizon without darkening the yellow light that unites the entire scene.
The horizon line placed in the upper quarter
The two harvesters and their distinct gestures
The red train and its plumes of steam
The blue profile of the buildings of Arles
The variety of yellows, ochres and pinks in wheat
Work sheet
Title
The Reapers, F545
Artist
Vincent van Gogh (1853 -1890)
Date
End of June - July 1888
Place of creation
Plaine de la Crau, Arles
Original technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73 × 54 cm
Inventory
Rodin Museum P.07304 · F545 · JH1477
Conservation
Rodin Museum, Paris
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In your interior
A solar vertical dominated by gold
The vertical format is suitable for a narrow wall, entrance or space between two windows. The yellow range warms white, blue, gray or light wood interiors.
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