 The "Wheat Field with a Reaper" was started in the summer before a bout of illness and completed in September.Here Van Gogh depicts a reaper in a sun-drenched wheat field.Referring to a Biblical metaphor, Van Gogh wrote of the meaning of this painting, "In this reaper – a vague figure laboring like the devil in the terrible heat to finish his task – I saw an image of death, in the sense that the wheat being reaped represented mankind...