Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Today's painting
The Potato Eaters
Van Gogh wanted this to be judged as his first real picture, and he wanted it judged on the hands. He wrote to his brother that he had tried to show that these people, eating potatoes by lamplight, had dug the earth with the same hands they are now putting into the dish — and that this was the whole honesty of the…
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Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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