Head of a Peasant Woman with Dark Cap is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in December 1884 - January 1885. It is kept in a private collection (F133).
Translation by F. Storr, BA ARGUMENT Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes. She is caught in the act by Creon's watchmen and brought before the king. She justifies her action, asserting that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of any human ordinance. Creon, unrelenting, condemns her to be immured in a rock-hewn chamber. His son Haemon, to whom Antigone is
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