The rest

The Rest (The Red Cart) is an oil on canvas painting by Italian painter Giovanni Fattori, from 1887. It was considered by Fattori's himself one of his best works. It is held in the Pinacoteca di Brera, in Milan. Description The painting depicts a tired farmer resting seated in a field after having unplugged the oxen. The elements in the canvas are positioned on a diagonal that joins the vertex at the bottom left to the one at the top right, and the colors used are substantially the primary ones. The chariot is red, while the field is yellow and the sea blue. The cart with its abandoned plow can just be glimpsed, the oxen, which occupy the center of the composition, have a very evident size, while the farmer on the left has a pyramidal structure. The landscape of this hot summer afternoon in the Tuscan Maremma is majestic and solitary.