The Sower at Sunset, F422Reproduction of oil painting on canvas
A sower strides across blue-purple earth, his hand open in the gesture of dispersing the seeds. Behind him, a monumental yellow sun sets on a strip of ripe wheat and transforms the landscape into an almost cosmic image.
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The Sower at Sunset, F422Vincent van Gogh · June 17-28, 1888 · Kroeller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
June 17-28, 1888Dating
64.2 × 80.3 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
Kroeller-Müller Museum, OtterloConservation
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Look at the work
The sower's gesture connects the plowed earth to the sun
The horizon line is very high: almost two thirds of the canvas belongs to the plowed ground. The silhouette advances to the right, but its outstretched arm moves back to the left and balances this march with a large opposite movement.
The sun, almost tangent to the wheat line, radiates in touches of yellow and orange in the sky. Its reflection descends in a clear trail through the blue-purple furrows, creating a vertical axis in the middle of the composition.
The Sower at Sunset was painted in Arles around June 17-28, 1888. This oil on canvas of 64.2 × 80.3 cm, F422/JH1470, is kept at the Kroeller-Müller Museum under number KM 106.399.
Composition, touch and color
Three observations specific to this painting
The museum explains that Van Gogh takes the famous Sower by Jean-François Millet to create a modern, luminous and strongly colored version. The thick painting of the field contrasts blue-violet and orange almost like a relief.
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The field physically dominates the stage
The clods are indicated by thick, short and juxtaposed touches. Their material gives a density in the foreground that the more regular sky lightens.
02
The sun is both a disk and a source of energy
Its almost perfect shape contrasts with the irregularity of the earth. The painted rays extend its light to the edges of the painting.
03
Sowing and harvesting coexist
The character spreads seeds on the freshly worked soil, while a strip of ripe wheat already stands behind him: two stages of the natural cycle appear together.
Documented benchmarks
Precisely identify the original work
F422/JH1470 is the large version of The Sower dominated by the setting sun, kept in Otterlo. KM number 106.399 distinguishes it from the numerous studies and reprints of the same motif carried out by Van Gogh.
Model
A reinvention of Jean-François Millet
Van Gogh admires the Sower painted by Millet in 1850. In Arles, however, he sought a personal translation, based on radiant colors and sharp contrasts.
Meaning
The cycle of nature and life
For Van Gogh, the sower also carries a spiritual dimension: the one who spreads the seeds can evoke the one who transmits the word, while the harvest announces the completion of the cycle.
Collection
A flagship work of the Kroeller-Müller Museum
The painting belongs to the important Van Gogh collection assembled by Helene Kroeller-Müller and today bears the number KM 106.399.
The copy must restore the large solar disk, the open arm of the sower, the yellow reflection in the furrows, the thick blue-purple material of the field and the strip of ripe wheat behind the figure.
The disk of the setting sun
The ample gesture of the arm
The earth blue-purple and orange
The central light trail
Ripe wheat strip on horizon
Work sheet
Title
The Sower at Sunset, F422
Artist
Vincent van Gogh (1853 -1890)
Date
June 17-28, 1888
Place of creation
Arles
Original technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
64.2 × 80.3 cm
Inventory
F422 · JH1470 · KM 106,399
Conservation
Kroeller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
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In your interior
A solar scene, symbolic and deeply textured
Golden yellow, orange, lavender blue, purple and green brown make up a powerful image for a contemporary living room, dining room or large wall.
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Is this a canvas print?
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The official IIIF image from the Kroeller-Müller Museum was exported directly in 3000 × 2374 px, then encoded as a real WebP without artificial enlargement.
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