In Saint-Rémy, van Gogh became interested in making copies in oil paint of prints by or after the works of those artists who represented for him the pantheon of modern art - Millet, Delacroix and Rembrandt, and Daumier, Doré and the illustrators. He explained these copies in many ways. At one level, in the absence of models, he used them to practice his figure drawing and painting. At another level, he stated that by painting them in colour he was attempting to bring these artists, and what they stood for, before the public once again. This also enabled him to update them by demonstrating what he identified as his contribution to the tradition of modern art - colour.

For the copies, van Gogh used prints from the collection he and his brother had made. In fact van Gogh's paintings were not copies, rather these works were paintings in their own right.

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	Reaper with Sickle (after Millet) September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 45 x 34 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	900*1242 True Color 225 Kb
	Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (after Millet) September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 45 x 34 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	900*1201 True Color 221 Kb
	Pietà (after Delacroix) September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 74 x 62 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	900*1119 True Color 208 Kb
	The Spinner (after Millet) September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 40 x 26 cm Private collection	750*1217 True Color 141 Kb
	The Reaper (after Millet) September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 44 x 25 cm Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester	750*1318 True Color 136 Kb
	The Thresher (after Millet) September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 44 x 28 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	650*1054 True Color 138 Kb
	The Sheaf-Binder (after Millet) September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 45 x 32 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	886*1200 True Color 196 Kb
	The Sheep-Shearers (after Millet) September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 44 x 30 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	761*1100 True Color 176 Kb
	Peasant Woman Cutting Straw (after Millet) September 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 41 x 27 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	700*1054 True Color 128 Kb
	Two Peasants Digging (after Millet) October 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 92 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam	1266*1000 True Color 237 Kb
	The Sower (after Millet) October-November 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 64 x 55 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo	889*1050 True Color 179 Kb
	The Sower (after Millet) October 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 81 x 66 cm Private collection	850*1050 True Color 153 Kb
	The Shepherdess (after Millet) November 1889, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 53 x 41 cm Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv	917*1200 True Color 221 Kb
	Morning: Peasant Couple Going to Work (after Millet) January 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg	1157*900 True Color 226 Kb
	First Steps (after Millet) January 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 72 x 91 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	1145*900 True Color 208 Kb
	Noon: Rest from Work (after Millet) January 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 91 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris	1141*900 True Color 255 Kb
	Prisoners Exercising (after Doré) February 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 80 x 64 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow	800*1043 True Color 165 Kb
	The Drinkers (after Daumier) February 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 59 x 73 cm Art Institute, Chicago	1300*1090 True Color 197 Kb
	The Woodcutter (after Millet) February 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 44 x 25 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	700*1224 True Color 154 Kb
	The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix) May 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo	900*1103 True Color 266 Kb
	The Raising of Lazarus (after Rembrandt) May 1890, Saint-Rémy Oil on canvas, 49 x 63 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	1189*900 True Color 243 Kb