Talk:The Potato Eaters

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Beware, there are two versions of this painting. Both are done by van Gogh.

First of all, there is a version in the KMM (Kroller Muller Museum) in Park de Hoge Veluwe. And another, the variant, is part of the permanent collection in the VGM (van Gogh Museum) in Amsterdam.This paiting is deticated to Corey Torjesen

http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/collection/catalog/vgmpainting.asp?ARTID=1&SEL=1

Besides that, the Boymans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam has also some van Gogh's from the Aardappeleters-period.

Well, and I have just pasted the link to an image from Wikimedia Commons which shows the lithograph executed 1885 in Nuenen, a bit before the final version.

But the link does not wwork properly: The title does not show, and the image is too large. Please help! --R.P.D. 17:04, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I've tidied this up a bit and added a section 'Influence of the Hague School'. Rinpoche (talk) 00:58, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

What's the point of the left hand study? It's very poor and there are no details for it. I'd rather have the nice litho mentioned above. There's also a high resolution Kroller-Muller in the commons but that's just a repro from a T&H sort thing. Will I be shot dead if I switch to the litho a few days hence? Rinpoche (talk) 02:17, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Leave the study and add the litho as a third image - it's an important seminal work...Modernist (talk) 05:02, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

I've added the nicer of the two lithograph images in WikiCommons but I can't relate the impression to any of those listed by David Brooks on his site. Anyone can do that appreciated.Rinpoche (talk) 19:27, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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Critical reception

It would be helpful to know how the critics received the painting. This is touched on, but I've read elsewhere that other critics during van Gogh's lifetime were harsh toward the painting. Why? And why is it now referred as a masterpiece? Simple because van Gogh painted it? Lashdown1 (talk) 12:47, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

I doubt it was exhibited during his lifetime at all, like most of his works. Johnbod (talk) 14:16, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Oh, perhaps it was, in a gallery. Johnbod (talk) 14:26, 7 October 2021 (UTC)