Cypresses
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Details
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Date
- 1889
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 36 3/4 x 29 1/8 in. (93.4 x 74 cm)
- Department
- European Paintings
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Rogers Fund, 1949
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Both · 99%
The image clearly depicts a landscape, and the museum metadata lists “Landscapes” as a subject.
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Flora Both · 99%
Cypress trees are the dominant visible forms, and the museum metadata lists “Cypresses” as a subject.
Visual Qualities
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Curvilinear Forms Visual · 98%
Repeated curling and sweeping marks dominate the sky, foliage, hills, and ground, producing strongly curvilinear visual forms.
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 97%
The composition uses saturated turquoise, blue, green, yellow, ocher, cream, and pink passages in strong contrast.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 100%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies the medium as oil on canvas.
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Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 99%
Broad, energetic, directional strokes are clearly visible throughout the foliage, sky, hills, and foreground.
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Impasto Visual · 92%
The paint appears visibly thick and ridged in many passages, especially across the cypresses and foreground.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 100%
The catalog dates the work to 1889, placing it within nineteenth-century art.
Geographic Regions
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Dutch Art Metadata · 99%
The museum identifies Vincent van Gogh as Dutch in the artist display information.
Source & rights
Vincent van Gogh. Cypresses. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 1,476 × 1,861 · Metropolitan Museum Of Art · Available