The Rest (The Red Cart) is an oil on canvas painting by Italian painter Giovanni Fattori, from 1887.

[1][2] The painting depicts a tired farmer resting seated in a field after having unharnessed 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 cart 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.

[3] The landscape of this hot summer afternoon in the Tuscan Maremma is majestic and solitary.