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| Thatched cottages at Cordeville, 1890 | |
| Artist: | Vincent van Gogh |
| Year: | 1890 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 60 |
| Width Metric: | 73 |
| Height Imperial: | 24.0 |
| Width Imperial: | 27.8 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/chaumes-de-cordeville-auvers-sur-oise-754 |
Thatched Cottages at Cordeville, 1890 or Chaumes de Cordeville à Auvers-sur-Oise (literally Thatches of Cordeville at Auvers-sur-Oise) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in May 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.[1]
Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left the asylum in Saint-Rémy in May 1890.
Thatched Cottage of Cordeville, 1890 or Chaumes de Cordeville à Auvers-sur-Oise (literally Thatches of Cordeville at Auvers-sur-Oise) is thought to be the study he mentions in his letter of 21 May 1890 to his brother Theo and wife Jo immediately after arriving in Auvers:"... when I wrote to you I hadn’t yet done anything. Now I have a study of old thatched roofs with a field of peas in flower and some wheat in the foreground, hilly background. A study which I think you’ll like."[2]
Hulsker believes the painting is amongst a group of 20 or so works executed by Vincent immediately after his arrival in Auvers, May 20, and the remainder of the month:" ... we immediately see in this painting the bright colours that, generally speaking, are characteristic of the Auvers period and differentiate them somewhat from the paintings done in Saint-Rémy - although there is naturally no question of a real break with the past from one week to the next."[3]
The painting is in the Musee d'Orsay https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/chaumes-de-cordeville-auvers-sur-oise-754
See Van Gogh, Artistic breakthrough and final years, Auves-sur-Oise