In this episode, history fanatic and Van Gogh expert Bert Finke emphasizes the works that Van Gogh made in this area, including a drawing showing a number of workers sitting and eating. Finke: “You also see here, just like he did with the weed-burning farmer, a fire with smoke crawling above it. So this was probably also a representation of what Vincent Gogh wanted to achieve. By, say, the fire and wanting to capture the light of the fire in a drawing. We know that a painting was made of that drawing, but unfortunately it has not been preserved, so we can only see in pen drawing what he meant… “.
Drenthe Toen podcast: Van Gogh in New Amsterdam, part 3
