Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds

Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds (in Dutch, Korenveld onder onweerslucht) (F778, JH2097) is an 1890 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh.

It depicts a relatively flat and featureless landscape with fields of green wheat, under a foreboding dark blue sky with a few heavy white clouds.

It was one of several paintings of wheat fields that he made in Auvers-sur-Oise, in an unusually elongated double-square format: other examples include Wheatfield with Crows (F779) and Landscape at Auvers in the Rain (F811).

He added that he intended to take them to Paris as soon as possible, as "these canvases will tell you what I can’t say in words, what I consider healthy and fortifying about the countryside" (j'espère vous les apporter à Paris le plus tôt possible … ces toiles vous diront ce que je ne sais dire en paroles, ce que je vois de sain et de fortifiant dans la campagne).

After her death in 1925 it was inherited by Theo and Jo's son Vincent Willem van Gogh [nl].