Composed during the artist's stay in Nuenen, a village in Brabant, an extra teapot sits in the bottom right corner, while a clock is barely visible in the upper left. The two windows in the back tell us that night has arrived and the entire scene is lit by a single lamp that hangs above the five figures, who are all huddled around a small rectangular table in a dilapidated room. A young girl sits with her back to the viewer, while her father, in profile, picks at the titular food. FTP identify this drab painting meant t
Composed during the artist's stay in Nuenen, a village in Brabant, an extra teapot sits in the bottom right corner, while a clock is barely visible in the upper left. The two windows in the back tell us that night has arrived and the entire scene is lit by a single lamp that hangs above the five figures, who are all huddled around a small rectangular table in a dilapidated room. A young girl sits with her back to the viewer, while her father, in profile, picks at the titular food. FTP identify this drab painting meant to evoke the poverty of rural peasant families, an 1885 work by Vincent Van Gogh.
Composed during the artist's stay in Nuenen, a village in Brabant, an extra teapot sits in the bottom right corner, while a clock is barely visible in the upper left.
The Potato Eaters