This is van Gogh?™s last view of a plain outside Arles that he often painted since settling in the south of France in 1888. He wrote to the painter Paul Signac ?˜everything is small there ... even the mountains; as in certain Japanese landscapes; which is the reason why the subject attracted me.??The snow-capped peak on the right (a deliberate echo of Mount Fuji in Japan) and blossoming trees create a peaceful atmosphere. But the bent figure at left emphasises this is a man-made landscape.