Stairs in the Garden of the Asylum
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, May-June 1889
chalk, brush and oil paint and ink, on cardboard, 63.1 cm x 45.6 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh probably had only a little bit of leftover paint when he made this in Saint-Rémy. He was also out of canvas. So he used thinned oil paint on cardboard for this view of the garden of the asylum. He had arrived only recently and was not yet allowed to work beyond the garden walls. Later he was also permitted to draw and paint outside the complex.
Here he used not only paint but also coloured ink, which has faded to brown. The paint has also changed colour. This is especially clear in the steps, where the purple hue has become very faint.
- F-number
- F1535
- JH-number
- JH1713
- Object number
- d0438V1962
- Dimensions
- 63.1 cm x 45.6 cm
- Provenance
- With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after the beginning of June 1889; 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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