Orchards in Blossom, View of Arles
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, April 1889
oil on canvas, 53.5 cm x 65.5 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
The twisted branches of the tree in the right foreground are cut off by the edges of the canvas. Van Gogh and his brother Theo had a joint collection of Japanese woodcuts. Vincent said that these made him happy and cheerful. He also took many ideas from them for his own art.
Like many of his contemporaries, Van Gogh was inspired by the Japanese style of visual representation. Subjects were sometimes shown in close-up in the foreground or cut off abruptly at the edge of the picture. Van Gogh was also drawn to the attention paid in Japanese prints to details from nature. Flowering orchards were a frequent subject. Van Gogh still had these models in mind in 1888, when he painted a series of orchards in blossom.
- F-number
- F0515
- JH-number
- JH1683
- Object number
- s0036V1962
- Dimensions
- 53.5 cm x 65.5 cm, 69.2 cm x 81.2 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, mid-July 1889; after Theo’s death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; 1926 given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Mesdag Museum, The Hague; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, from 1927 to 1930; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931; donated by Vincent Willem van Gogh on 11 March 1952 to the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Laren; transferred on 28 December 1960 by the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation to the Theo van Gogh Foundation, Laren; agreement concluded on 21 July 1962 between the (2nd) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State; donated on 21 July 1962 by the Theo van Gogh Foundation to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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