Landscape with a Carriage and a Train explained
| Image Upright: | 1 |
| Landscape with a Carriage and a Train |
| Artist: | Vincent van Gogh |
| Year: | 1890 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 72.0 |
| Width Metric: | 90.0 |
| Height Imperial: | 28.3 |
| Width Imperial: | 35.4 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Pushkin Museum |
| City: | Moscow (F760, JH2019) |
Landscape with a Carriage and a Train is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in June 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.[1] [2] [3]
Background
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] He made the painting in the week following his portraits of Dr. Gachet.[5] The viewpoint from above was a favourite perspective of his since his days sketching in the dunes of Scheveningen at The Hague with the aid of a perspective frame.[6]
Van Gogh described the painting in a letter to his sister Wil:[7]
The painting is in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.[8]
See also
Bibliography
- de la Faille, Jacob-Baart. The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1970.
- Hulsker, Jan. The Complete Van Gogh. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980.
- Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White. Van Gogh: The Life. Profile Books, 2011.
- van der Veen, Wouter; Knapp, Peter. Van Gogh in Auvers: His Last Days. Monacelli Press, 2010.
Notes and References
- Book: Van Gogh in Auvers: His Last Days. 2010. Wouter. van der Veen. Peter. Knapp. The Monacelli Press. 978-1-58093-301-8. 134–5.
- Book: de la Faille, Jacob Baart. The works of Vincent van Gogh. 1970. Meulenhoff. Amsterdam. 293. 300160639.
- Book: Hulsker, Jan. The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches. 1986. Random House. 0-517-44867-X. 462.
- Book: Van Gogh: The Life. 2011. Random House. Steven. Naifeh. Gregory. White Smith. 978-0-375-50748-9. 822 ff..
- Hulsker (1980) p. 462
- Naifeh and Smith (2011) pp. 290-3
- Web site: Letter 886: To Willemien van Gogh. Auvers, Friday, 13 June 1890. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. Paragraph 1 ff.. Lately I’ve been working a lot and quickly ....
- Web site: Landscape with Carriage and Train in the Background. Brooks, D . The Vincent van Gogh Gallery, endorsed by Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam . David Brooks (self-published) .
