Farmhouse with a Stooping Peasant-woman in a Blue Dress

Van Gogh's 1885 Farmhouse with a Stooping Peasant Woman in a Blue Dress belongs to the series of Nuenen subjects documenting peasant life in its specific built and agricultural setting. The blue dress of the stooping woman provides a chromatic note unusual in his typically dark Dutch palette — a moment of color in an otherwise earthen composition. The farmhouse behind her roots the figure in its specific material world, connecting her labor to the domestic space it serves. The work is currently in a private collection or unlocated.

The stooping figure in her blue dress is the composition's chromatic center, the blue providing contrast within the dark earthen surroundings. Van Gogh renders both figure and farmhouse with the careful observation of someone who knows this environment well. His Nuenen palette is typically dark, the blue dress standing out within that register.