The artwork titled “Man Sitting by the Stove The Pauper” is a piece by Vincent van Gogh created in 1882 in The Hague, Netherlands. The medium of the artwork is chalk and pencil on paper, and it belongs to the Realism art movement. This genre painting is currently held in a private collection.
The artwork depicts a solemn scene featuring a man seated on a wooden chair beside a simple stove. The man, with a downcast expression, is portrayed with meticulous attention to the textures and lines, reflecting the hardships of his life. The sparse setting and the man’s worn clothing emphasize the theme of poverty and hardship. The entire composition is rendered in shades of black and white, capturing the stark reality of the subject’s existence with a poignant simplicity characteristic of van Gogh’s early works in the Realism movement.
