1885
crayon
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Potato Eaters is a 1885 crayon by Vincent van Gogh, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows four people sitting around a rough wooden table in a dim room. They’re wearing simple, worn clothes, and one person holds a potato in their hands. The light comes from a single lamp hanging above, casting shadows on the walls. The scene looks plain and real, with no fancy details. The artist used a dark, scratchy style to show the texture of the clothes and table. This was made as a drawing, not a painting, with crayon and scraping on paper. Look up lithography next to see how this technique works.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
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