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Landscape with a Stack of Peat and Farmhouses
Vincent van Gogh, September-December 1883

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Landscape with a Stack of Peat and Farmhouses

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Drenthe, September-December 1883

watercolour on paper, 41.7 cm x 54.1 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam


The dark structure in the middle of the drawing looks like a cottage, but it is actually a stack of peat. In Drenthe, peat was stacked in the form of a house with a sloping roof. Van Gogh gave the stack of peat a central place in his composition and showed its reflection in the ditch.

He wrote to his brother Theo that at dusk the fields of Drenthe were transformed into a 'sublime' place, 'when that vast, sun-scorched earth stands out dark against the delicate lilac tints of the evening sky, and the very last fine dark blue line on the horizon separates earth from sky'.

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  • 1883
  • Drenthe
  • drawing
  • landscape (representation)
  • townscape
  • Vincent van Gogh

F-number
F1099
JH-number
JH0399
Object number
d0386M1977
Credits
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Dimensions
41.7 cm x 54.1 cm