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The Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas

In 1885 The Potato Eaters was completed as a public peasant-meal canvas. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Income Inequality.

The Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas
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In 1885 The Potato Eaters was completed as a public peasant-meal canvas. The instrument is that picture, not a later ticketed room. Vincent van Gogh's documented role is: He painted the 1885 canvas. Later museum lighting is not 1885.

Context

Theo is the named first public for the canvas in letters. Sharing that brother-dealer channel is required. The setting of The Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas is the public file around 1885-04-01. Driver income-inequality is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Why it matters

Improving path from The Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas on 1885-04-01. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Nuenen weavers remain the broader labour file. Mixed effects of The Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Vincent van Gogh

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.48 · verified

    He painted the 1885 canvas. Later museum lighting is not 1885.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas
    2. weakensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 April 1885 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Van Gogh Museum — collection (Nuenen weavers neighbourhood)Van Gogh Museum · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Goupil neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Van Gogh Museum — The Potato Eaters neighbourhood at https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection (opens in a new tab) (Van Gogh Museum). Independent locator: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Potato Eaters at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Van Gogh Museum — The Potato Eaters neighbourhood (https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection (opens in a new tab); Van Gogh Museum). Independent carrier: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Potato Eaters (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: a sourced public record of The Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas under 1885-04-01 for Vincent van Gogh. Established: a sourced public record of The Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas under 1885-04-01.

Shared responsibility is part of The Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas. Naming Vincent van Gogh does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1885-04-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorVincent van Gogh
  2. contributed toFactThe Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas
  3. weakensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). The Potato Eaters is completed in 1885 as a public peasant-meal canvas. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-potato-eaters-1885

https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-potato-eaters-1885

Accessed 15 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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