Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat

Catalogue numbers: F 774, JH 2053.

For van Gogh, recording his subjects in art meant capturing their presence in Nature. The picture of the young peasant woman in wheatfield is a good example of this. The model is seen posing in surroundings that constitute her livelihood, in a field of ripening wheat. This setting functions both as attribute and as a traditional item in portrait iconography.