Portrait of Patience Escalier ☲ Van Gogh ☴ Canvas mosaic though he is not known

though he is not known for religious artwork

left to right

with another couple in the background

The original location

Portrait of Patience Escalier ☲ Van Gogh ☴ Canvas mosaic though he is not knownPortrait of a Peasant (1888, Patience Escalier) by Vincent van Gogh depicts a sunburnt and weather beaten Provenal peasant, gazing intensely out of the canvas. Patience Escalier, "formerly a cowhand in the Camargue, now a gardener at one of the farms in La Crau," sat as a portrait model for Vincent in Arles. The portrait represents a change in his work towards a much more vibrant use of color, here an almost unreal depiction of yellows, blues, greens