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Van Gogh's early masterpiece shows a peasant family sharing a meagre meal of potatoes by lamplight, their coarse faces and hands deliberately rough. He wanted to show honest labour and the earth they worked. Dark and earthy, it precedes his later blaze of colour.
The Potato Eaters
- Date1885
- MovementPost-Impressionism
- WhereVan Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- RegionLow Countries · North