Regarding Peasant Character Studies (Van Gogh series), how does the Gender roles's Women incorporate the Home and child care?
Home and child care Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace (F176) was painted by Van Gogh in 1885 following the completion of The Potato Eaters.  Both paintings were made in dark hues like "green soap" or a "good dusty potato."  Seeking realism, Van Gogh was "convinced that in the long run to portray peasants in their coarseness gives better results than introducing conventional sweetness. If a peasant painting smells of bacon, smoke, potato steam, very well, that's not unhealthy; if a stable smells of manure, alright, that's why it's a stable..."Peasant Woman Peeling Potatoes, also called The Potato Peeler, was painted by Van Gogh in 1885, the year before he left the Netherlands for France. It is typical of the peasant studies that he made in Nuenen, "with its restricted palette of dark tones, coarse fracture, and blocky drawing."
Potato Eaters Peasant peasant The Potato Eaters Nuenen Netherlands