The Sower by Jean-François Millet, 1847
He painted this same striding figure more than once; the version that went to the Paris Salon and got people arguing about whether farm labourers belonged in serious painting is a different one, elsewhere. Van Gogh, apparently, copied the sower over and over for years — he treated it as something to learn from rather than something to hang.
Erisava: He's nearly the same colour as the field he's walking on. Is that on purpose?
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The sky's the only bright thing in it and it still looks like bad news.