The artwork “Donkey Cart with Boy and Scheveningen Woman” by Vincent van Gogh, was created in 1882 in The Hague, Netherlands. Rendered in chalk on paper, it belongs to the Realism art movement and is categorized as a genre painting.
The artwork portrays a simple yet evocative scene: a boy stands next to a donkey hitched to a cart, with a woman from Scheveningen, a fishing village in the Netherlands, walking away in the background. The use of chalk on paper imparts a rough texture to the scene, emphasizing the quotidian nature of the subjects and the raw, unembellished reality of rural life. The donkey, central to the composition, is depicted in a manner that suggests burden and labor, while the cart and the figures reflect a moment in everyday life, encapsulating the essence of genre painting.
