Garden of the Hospital
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, May 1889
pencil, reed pen and pen and brush and ink, on paper, 46.6 cm x 59.9 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
For months, Van Gogh looked out over this courtyard of the hospital in Arles. That was in the spring of 1889. He drew the lush garden while staying there for treatment of his mental condition.
Van Gogh drew with a reed pen, filling almost the entire page. It takes a while before you notice that a few figures are visible. There are people in the upper left, on the upstairs gallery. And on the far side of the garden, there are two nuns. As if it were a puzzle, he placed his signature on a watering can on the lower right, in front of the tall tree.
- F-number
- F1467
- JH-number
- JH1688
- Object number
- d0222V1962
- Dimensions
- 46.6 cm x 59.9 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Arles to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, June 1888; after his 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; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh on 10 July 1962 to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation 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, 21 July 1962; 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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