9. Jules Bastien-Lepage,
Saison d’Octobre (Season of October), also known as
La récolte des pommes de terre (The potato gatherers) (Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria). There were numerous reproductions of it in circulation through which Van Gogh could have known the work: after it appeared in the
Catalogue Illustré du Salon 1879 (facing p. 12), it was distributed more widely by way of the etching by
Lionel Aristide Lecouteux, published in
L’Art 5-2 (1879), p. 146 (
Ill. 543 ); by way of the large print in
La Vie Moderne 1 (29 May 1879), no. 8, pp. 120-121; by way of the reproduction in
L’Univers Illustré 22 (5 July 1879), no. 1267, p. 417; by way of the engraving by G. Mercier in
Gazette des Beaux-Arts of 1 February 1885; and by way of a recent reproduction in
L’Univers Illustré 28 (28 March 1885), p. 204.