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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?
Sower by Vincent van Gogh, 1881
From what I can find he was still teaching himself to draw when he made this — no training, just prints of an older painter's peasant scenes copied over and over until the figures came right. He kept going back to this same striding sower for years afterwards.
Erisava: The whole thing's one shade of brown and he still looks like he's mid-step.