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Portrait of a peasant woman in a green shawl by Vincent Van Gogh

Portrait of a peasant woman in a green shawl by Vincent Van Gogh

The theme of peasant life is a priority in the early works of Van Gogh. Like his idol Jean-Francois Millet, he tries to convey to the viewer the beauty of simple and unsophisticated existence of peasants, truthfully showing the difficult conditions of their life. Still-lifes with peasant utensils, joyless rural landscapes with dilapidated shacks, portraits of ordinary people formed the basis of the Dutch creativity of the author.

In this portrait, written in 1885, Van Gogh portrayed a young peasant woman in green shawls. The artist used a deliberately simplified manner, based on the rapid transfer of the most characteristic features of the face, without careful drawing of details. The painting is written in a dark muted color scheme, composed of warm shades of ocher, red and brown. The woman’s clothes almost merge with the background, and the main emphasis is on her coarse, darkened face with a low forehead and broad cheekbones.

The author does not concentrate on portrait resemblance, quickly denoting facial features with dark strokes. But at the same time he makes every effort to convey the unusual inner beauty of a woman. The soft look of her large eyes ennobles the face, making the simple rough features almost perfect. The image of the peasant woman is full of purity and spirituality, it can be compared with the images of the Madonnas in the paintings of the Renaissance artists. This expressed the artist’s infinitely reverent attitude towards ordinary people.

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