Meules de blé

Meules de blé (Wheat Stacks), painted in 1888 during Vincent van Gogh’s time in Arles, is a vivid portrayal of the rural harvest season in Provence. The painting features golden stacks of wheat under a radiant sky, surrounded by sun-drenched fields and accented with rhythmic, expressive brushwork.

Van Gogh’s warm, earthy palette and dynamic composition convey both the physical weight of the harvest and its symbolic richness—suggesting themes of labor, abundance, and the eternal cycles of nature. Influenced by his admiration for peasant life and the rural traditions of southern France, Meules de blé captures the dignity and beauty of agrarian work with emotional depth and luminous energy.