The trip to France undertaken by Angelo Torchi in 1889, to discover Impressionism and Pointillism, gave rise to immediate consequences. His new works, which are influenced by suggestions from beyond the Alps, are not accepted by the deans of the maquis and are harshly contested by them, a harbinger of the split in the Macchiaioli area. The painting Wheat in the Sun of 1891 fits into this context, which is distinguished by the meticulous application of a minute dotting of the French school, distributed to build a linear landscape of yellow fields and blue skies flickering in the clear summer heat. The diligent use of divided color, systematically approached by means of a very dense weave of pure pigments in complementary correspondences, is enlivened by the peculiar materiality, the canvas, for its fineness, quality and stylistic coherence, has no equal in the entire production of a painter "who it took a lifetime to filter the sun through the pupils ”, trying never univocal solutions that place it in a broad perspective, at times with a European breath.