A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage
Vincent van Gogh
c. 1885
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
31.3 × 42 cm (12 5/16 × 16 1/2 in.); Framed: 52.1 × 62.6 × 10.8 cm (20 1/2 × 24 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28862
About the Artist
Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) stands as one of the most influential figures in Western art history, despite a career spanning merely a decade. Born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, to a Protestant pastor's family, van Gogh's path to artistic greatness was anything but conventional. His early adulthood saw him working as an art dealer for Goupil & Cie, a language teacher, and a fervent missiona...