"Van Gogh wrote that he painted "in the groves, morning and evening during these clear, cold days, but in beautiful, bright sunshine."He told Theo that he was drawn to paintings of Christ in the Garden of Olives, but found none adequate. 'What I have done is a rather hard and coarse reality beside their abstractions, but it will have a rustic quality and will smell of the earth.' He believed 'one can express anguish without making reference to the actual Gethsemane..." http://bjws.blogspot.nl/