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The Potato Peeler (reverse: Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat)

1885
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 825
This painting from February/March 1885, with its restricted palette of dark tones, coarse facture, and blocky drawing, is typical of the works Van Gogh painted in Nuenen the year before he left Holland for France. His peasant studies of 1885 culminated in his first important painting, The Potato Eaters (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Potato Peeler (reverse: Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat)
  • Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)
  • Date: 1885
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
  • Object Number: 67.187.70b
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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