Water Mill at Opwetten | |
Image Upright: | 1 |
Artist: | Vincent van Gogh |
Year: | 1884 |
Medium: | Oil on canvas on panel |
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Height Metric: | 45.0 |
Width Metric: | 58.0 |
Museum: | Private collection |
Water Mill at Opwetten (F48) is an oil painting of the Watermill at Opwetten, created in 1884 by Vincent van Gogh. It is considered one of his first works using oil paint as a medium and anticipates Van Gogh's early realist masterpiece, The Potato Eaters.[1]
Van Gogh described the process of painting this piece to his brother Theo van Gogh in May 1884,[2] writing