When looking at the Periods of Wheat Fields, how do you discuss its Arles's June – complementary harvest paintings?
June – complementary harvest paintings Harvest, named by Van Gogh himself, or Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background is made in horizontal planes.  The harvested wheat lies in the foreground. In the center the activities for harvest are represented by the haystack, ladders, carts and a man with a pitchfork.  The background is purple-blue mountains against a turquoise sky. He was interested in depicting "the essence of country life." In June Van Gogh wrote of the landscape at La Crau that it was "beautiful and endless as the sea."  One of his most important works, the landscape reminded him of paintings by 17th century Dutch masters, Ruysdael and Philips Koninck. He also compared this work favorably with his painting The White Orchard.Wheat Stacks in Provence, made about the 12th or 13 June, was intended by Van Gogh to be a complementary work to the Harvest painting.  Ladders appear in both paintings which help to create a pastoral feeling.
Philips Koninck Montmajour pastoral Wheat La Crau Dutch masters Ruysdael