Potato Eaters was painted in April 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands by Vincent Van Gogh.
It is considered by many to be his first major work. Dark in tone, his art became brighter after he moved to Paris in 1886.
He later wrote his sister, “What I think about my own work is that the painting of the peasants eating potatoes that I did in Nuenen is after all the best thing I did.”
