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The Sower

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Oil on canvas (1888) by Vincent van Gogh, depicting a sower at work in a field under a large sun, with a flowering tree in the foreground. Painted in Arles, synthesizing Millet's peasant themes with Impressionist color. Held at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

Scholarly Significance

Van Gogh's homage to Millet and his own symbolic program; the sower as spiritual metaphor.

Notes

·Painted November 1888 in Arles; the most finished of a series of sower compositions Van Gogh worked on throughout 1888.
·Van Gogh returned obsessively to the sower motif throughout his career, citing Millet as inspiration.
·The enormous yellow sun dominates the composition, emphasizing light as a spiritual force.
·The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13) provides a biblical resonance Van Gogh was fully aware of.
·Part of the Kröller-Müller collection donated to the Dutch state in 1938.