Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field
John Singer Sargent
1885 · Oil on canvas · The American Wing
Sargent spent the summer and fall of 1885 in Broadway, a village in the English Cotswolds popular with many English and American artists and writers. This fluidly painted landscape conveys the pleasures of his rural idyll. The bright palette reflects the warmth of the midday sun, while Sargent’s sickle-shaped brushstrokes and impressionist technique evoke the reapers’ tools and labor.
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent
- Date
- 1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950
