Collection
Dive into the online collection and explore the artworks that Vincent van Gogh created in Auvers-sur-Oise.
Van Gogh thinks of Brabant
The countryside around Auvers-sur-Oise felt entirely familiar to Vincent van Gogh. It reminded him of his childhood in North Brabant and gave him a sense of security. The old houses with thatched roofs were especially appealing to him. He captured them frequently, painting them rapidly in fresh colours.
The most beautiful building of all in Auvers, though, was the village church. Van Gogh wrote of his painting of it, ‘the building appears purplish against a sky of a deep and simple blue of pure cobalt’. He compared the work with his 1885 painting of the old church in Nuenen.
Vincent van Gogh, Thatched Cottages in Cordeville, Auvers-sur-Oise , 1890, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photo: Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Vincent van Gogh, The Church at Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photo: Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Vincent van Gogh, The Old Church Tower at Nuenen (‘The Peasants' Churchyard’), 1885, Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)