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Summer 1884 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Nuenen Oil on paper on cardboard 57 x 82 cm F 190 JH 492 Farmers Planting Potatoes: August–September 1884 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Nuenen 66 x 149 cm F 41 JH 513 Potato Planting: September 1884 Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal: Nuenen 70.5 x 170 cm F 172 JH 514 Wood Gatherers in the Snow: September 1884
The Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859.. The painting depicts two peasants bowing in a field over a basket of potatoes to say a prayer, the Angelus, that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon marks the end of a day's work.
Peasant Man and Woman Planting Potatoes (F129a) is a spring-planting painting of a man and woman working together. He turns the earth with a spade and she plants the potato seed. The figures of both sit below the horizon, symbolic of their connection to the earth.
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According to a 2012 study, an estimated 300,000 households in Nigeria engage in potato production, which translates to an average planted area of 1 hectare (2.5 acres) per household each year. [12] The country's main potato-planting region is the Plateau State (Barkin Ladi, Bokkos, and Mangu) which accounts for almost half of the national ...
The plants often grow together in crowded colonies and spread by runners at or just under the soil surface. In late summer the plants produce tubers that are twice as long as wide, [9] each typically measuring 0.5 to 5 cm (1 ⁄ 4 to 2 in) in diameter. [8] The plant produces rosettes of leaves and an inflorescence on a long rigid scape.
He then decided to "only make small works for now", meaning figure studies such as Peasant Woman Digging Up Potatoes. [1] The work was initially owned by J. Willebeek le Mair then by an unnamed owner before being sold at auction, where its present owner was able to buy it thanks to the mediation of the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels.
The parable relates how servants eager to pull up weeds were warned that in so doing they would root out the wheat as well and were told to let both grow together until the harvest. Later in Matthew, the weeds are identified with "the children of the evil one ", the wheat with "the children of the Kingdom ", and the harvest with "the end of the ...