Reaper (Van Gogh Series)
''Reaper'' (french: faucheur, lit=reaper), ''Wheat Field with Reaper'', or ''Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun'' is the title given to each of a series of three oil-on-canvas paintings by Vincent van Gogh of a man reaping a wheat field under a bright early-morning sun. To the artist, the reaper represented death and "humanity would be the wheat being reaped". However, Van Gogh did not consider the work to be sad but "almost smiling" and taking "place in broad daylight with a sun that floods everything with a light of fine gold". The first painting (Jacob Baart de la Faille, F617), which is thickly impastoed, was started in June 1889. Work on the piece resumed in early September after the artist suffered a mental breakdown from which it took him several weeks to recover. Van Gogh then created two more stylized versions (F618 and F619) in early and late September 1889. He referred to the paintings as simply french: faucheur, lit=reaper, label=none, and said that the first was done fr ...
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Wheat Field With Reaper And Sun (F617), 1889
''Reaper'' (french: faucheur, lit=reaper), ''Wheat Field with Reaper'', or ''Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun'' is the title given to each of a series of three oil-on-canvas paintings by Vincent van Gogh of a man reaping a wheat field under a bright early-morning sun. To the artist, the reaper represented death and "humanity would be the wheat being reaped". However, Van Gogh did not consider the work to be sad but "almost smiling" and taking "place in broad daylight with a sun that floods everything with a light of fine gold". The first painting (Jacob Baart de la Faille, F617), which is thickly impastoed, was started in June 1889. Work on the piece resumed in early September after the artist suffered a mental breakdown from which it took him several weeks to recover. Van Gogh then created two more stylized versions (F618 and F619) in early and late September 1889. He referred to the paintings as simply french: faucheur, lit=reaper, label=none, and said that the first was done fr ...
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