Though his days in the Borinage came to an end, van Gogh’s drawings of peasants did not cease completely. In Arles, van Gogh’s work was more of landscapes than of people, but field workers often appeared in these scenes full of colorful blotches of paint. 
However, van Gogh still had the same intrigue in painting workers and the mentality of working as hard as the peasants. As he told his brother, Theo in a letter on June 18, 1888: “I am still charmed…a longing for the infinite, of which the sower, the sheaf are the symbols,” (qtd Ives 189). He continued on July 1 of that year, “During the harvest my work was not any easier than what the peasants who were actually harvesting were doing,” (Ives 190). Clearly, van Gogh continued this fascination with peasant workers and worked just as hard as they did in the fields on his artwork, or so he felt. 
He spent two weeks during that time sketching wheat fields and produced a number of landscapes, including Arles: View from the Wheat Fields, in which he included another small sower (Ives 190). Here, the field consumes the worker, and his size is diminished. In The Sower, van Gogh again puts more emphasis on the sun and wheat field than he does the man who is sowing it. The sunset is placed in the center and rays stream from it, attracting the viewer to that. The field is made of shades of violet, orange, and white, which the sower almost blends into.
In comparison to his early worker sketches 
and paintings, the workers take up a small fraction of the Arles paintings; this is illustrated throughout the course of the essay. A more direct comparison is shown in his 1881 sketch, also titled, The Sower. In this sketch, the sower takes up the majority of the page, with the field he is working in hiding behind him. He and his action are intended to attract a viewer’s attention, not the un-detailed and plain field. Just the opposite are van Gogh’s later peasants, as they hide behind the field and are completed with thick strokes, which does not allow for detail to create a focus for the viewer. Although van Gogh’s style and focus changed later in his career, he still had a peculiar interest in peasant workers, who managed to make an appearance, even if small, in his later work.