A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage

c. 1885

Driven by the loneliness and poverty he had experienced in the Hague, Vincent van Gogh returned to his parents’ home in the Netherlands in 1883. There he created a series of paintings of cottages based on his walks through the village. He wrote to his brother, "I feel for the brood and the nests—particularly those human nests, those cottages on the heath and their inhabitants.”

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Artist

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)

Date

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.)

Origin

Netherlands

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit

Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland