Vincent van Gogh completes and signs Sower at Sunset around November 25, 1888. The culmination of a long work around the motif of the sower, the canvas condenses the different influences animating the painter as well as his intense pictorial research. Resolutely modern, this work is also so thanks to the act which is represented there and to the equivalence established between the man and the tree. Through this unpublished text combining philosophical essay and treatise on agriculture, Emanuele Coccia takes a bold look at Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece. painting, landscape and museum, inviting us to rethink the whole relationship between species. Art, which is no longer the prerogative of human beings, can finally be returned to the living that make up our landscapes.--Translated from French.