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The Potato Eaters
The Potato Eaters () is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh painted in April 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands. It is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The original oil sketch of the painting is at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, and he also made lithographs of the image, which are held in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting is considered to be one of Van Gogh's masterpieces.
Composition.
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culminated in his famous painting "The Potato Eaters".
"The Cottage" (F83) was a home that the De Groot family, immortalized in "The Potato Eaters" shared with another family. The cottage has double front doors, a split chimney and quarters for two families. Seen in the evening light, the cottage seems peaceful. Van Gogh called the peasant homes "human nests".
"Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage" (F142) was one of the paintings that Van Gogh