Explore the The farm laborer and shepherd about the Men of the Gender roles in this artwork, Peasant Character Studies (Van Gogh series).
The farm laborer and shepherd Van Gogh had a poetic ideal in painting rural life and dreamed of a time when he might work side-by-side with his brother:
"Theo, be a painter, try to disentangle yourself and come to Drenthe…  So boy, do come and paint with me on the heath, in the potato field, come and walk with me behind the plow and the shepherd -- come and sit with me, looking into the fire -- let the storm that blows across the heath blow through you. Break loose from your bonds… Don’t seek [the future] in Paris, don’t seek it in America; it is always the same, forever, and ever exactly the same.  Make a thorough change indeed, try the heath.
Theo Drenthe