Rarely do they expect to find a dead grasshopper. I came across the teeny-tiny body of a grasshopper submerged in the paint, so it occurred in the wet paint back in 1889. Soon after, Van Gogh left the Yellow House in Arles and entered an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Van Gogh was used to the the problem of insects. “Van Gogh worked outside in the elements, and we know that he, like other plein air artists, dealt with wind and dust, grass and trees, and flies and grasshoppers.”

Source: The Guardian November 08, 2017 18:33 UTC