IDENTITY
Le retour des champs
Literature
Work Summary
A rural poem depicting the return from work in the fields and the human rhythms surrounding agricultural labour. It combines observation of peasant life with the atmosphere of evening and the close relationship between people, work and landscape.
Evidence Summary
The poem remained available in memory during a discussion of peasant painting.
Possible literature–art contextual recurrence, without a causal claim.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Jules Breton
Work
Le retour des champs
Years / Period
4–5 May 1885
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied, Editorially Identified
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
4–5 May 1885 — Letter 500 note 21
Editorially Identified · Recalled / quoted source
Editors identify Van Gogh's remembered lines as deriving from Breton's poem ‘Le retour des champs’.
Response: The poem remained available in memory during a discussion of peasant painting.
Connection: Possible literature–art contextual recurrence, without a causal claim.
Related Research Nodes
Study Subject
Themes
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