| Image Upright: | 1 |
| Farms near Auvers | |
| Artist: | Vincent van Gogh |
| Year: | 1890 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 50.2 |
| Width Metric: | 100.3 |
| Height Imperial: | 19.7 |
| Width Imperial: | 39.5 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | The National Gallery, London |
| Catalogue: | F793; JH2114 |
Farms near Auvers or Thatched Cottages by a Hill is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in July 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.[1] [2] The painting is an example of the double-square canvases that he employed in his last landscapes.[3]
Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left an asylum at Saint-Rémy in May 1890.[4] Shortly after arriving at Auvers, Van Gogh wrote his sister Wil: "Here there are roofs of mossy thatch which are superb, and of which I’ll certainly do something."[5] The painting appears to be unfinished. It is similar to Thatched Cottages and Houses, a painting thought to have been executed shortly after arrival at Auvers.[6] In 1933 the painting was bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop to the Tate Collection in London, though it is currently on loan to The National Gallery.[6] [7] It was painted the same month Van Gogh died.