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Vincent van Gogh paintings by Nuenen 1883-1885

Van Gogh's admiration for the Barbizon artists, in particular Jean-François Millet, influenced his decision to paint rural life. In the winter of 1884–85, while living with his parents in Nuenen, he painted more than forty studies of peasant heads, which culminated in his first multifigured, large-scale composition (The Potato Eaters); in this gritty portrayal of a peasant family at mealtime, Van Gogh wrote that he sought to express that they "have tilled the earth themselves with the same hands they are putting in the dish." Its dark palette and coarse application of paint typify works from the artist's Nuenen period .

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Head of a Young Peasant in a Peaked Cap 1885	Peasant Woman Darning Stockings 1885	Peasant Woman Seated before an Open Door, Peeling Potatoes 1885	Peasant Woman, Seated, with White Cap 1885	Peasant Woman, Seen against the Window 1885
Peasant Woman Standing Indoors 1885	Peasant Woman with Child on Her Lap 1885	Head of a Woman 1885	Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap 1885	Bobbin Winder 1885
Peasant Sitting at a Table 1885	Head of a Woman 1885	Head of a Woman 1885	Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap 1885	Landscape at Dusk 1885
Landscape at Sunset 1885	Peasant and Peasant Woman Planting Potatoes 1885	The Potato Eaters 1885	The Potato Eaters. Preliminary oil sketch 1885	Still Life with Bible 1885
Still Life with Copper Coffeepot and Two White Bowls 1885	Two Hands 1885	The Cottage 1885	Gordina de Groot, Head 1885	Head of a Peasant Woman 1885

Head of a Peasant Woman in a Green Shawl 1885	Head of a Woman 1885	Old Church Tower at Nuenen. The Peasants Churchyard 1885	Head of a Man 1885	Woman with a Mourning Shawl 1885
Cottage 1885	Cottage with Peasant Woman Digging 1885	Cottage with Trees 1885	Cottage with Trees 1885	Cottage with Trees 1885
Cottage with Trees and Peasant Woman	Peasant Woman by the Fireplace	Peasant Woman by the Fireplace	Peasant Woman Sitting on a Chair	Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage
Cottage 1885	Cottage and Woman with Goat 1885	Cottage with Decrepit Barn and Stooping Woman 1885	Cottage with Peasant Coming Home 1885	Peasant Woman Digging 1885
Two Peasant Women Digging 1885	Peasant Digging 1885	Peasant Woman Digging 1885	Peasant Woman Digging 1885	Woman Lifting Potatoes 1885

Peasant Woman Digging Up Potatoes 1885	Peasant Woman Laundering 1885	Peasant Woman Raking 1885	Sheaves of Wheat in a Field 1885	Two Peasant Women Digging Potatoes 1885
Still Life with a Basket of Apples 1885	Basket of Potatoes 1885	Basket of Potatoes 1885	Still Life with a Basket of Potatoes, Surrounded by Autumn Leaves and Vegetables 1885	Still Life with a Basket of Vegetables 1885
Still Life with an Earthen Bowl and Pears 1885	Basket of Apples 1885	Basket of Apples 1885	Still Life with Brass Cauldron and Jug 1885	Still Life with Ginger Jar and Apples 1885
Still Life with Ginger Jar and Onions 1885	Baskets of Potatoes 1885	Still Life with Two Jars and Two Pumpkins 1885	Still Life with Vegetables and Fruit 1885	Still Life with a Basket of Apples and Two Pumpkins 1885
Still Life with Birds Nests 1885	Still Life with Three Birds Nests 1885	Still Life with Birds Nests 1885	Autumn Landscape 1885	Country Lane with Two Figures 1885

The Vicarage at Nuenen 1885	Still Life with Three Birds Nests 1885	Still Life with Three Birds Nests 1885	View of a Town with Drawbridge 1885	View of Amsterdam from Central Station 1885
The De Ruijterkade in Amsterdam 1885	Autumn Landscape at Dusk 1885	Autumn Landscape with Four Trees 1885	Landscape with Windblown Trees 1885	Lane with Poplars 1885
The Parsonage at Nuenen by Moonlight 1885	The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen with Pond and Figures 1885	The Willow 1885	Flying Fox 1885	New-Born Calf Lying on Straw 1884

Vincent van Gogh paintings by Antwerp 1885-1886

In November 1885, he moved to Antwerp and rented a small room above a paint dealer's shop in the Rue des Images (Lange Beeldekensstraat). He had little money and ate poorly, preferring to spend the money Theo sent on painting materials and models. Bread, coffee, and tobacco were his staple intake.

Backyards of Old Houses in Antwerp in the Snow 1885	Head of a Woman with her Hair Loose 1885	Head of an Old Woman with White Cap. The Midwife 1885	Portrait of an Old Man with Beard 1885	Portrait of a Woman with Red Ribbon 1885
	Portrait of Woman in Blue 1885	Skull with Burning Cigarette 1885-1886	Still Life with Meadow Flowers and Roses 1886

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