Shoes
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Details
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 18 × 21 3/4 in. (45.7 × 55.2 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
- Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1992
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Still Life Both · 99%
The image clearly depicts several shoes as the principal subject, and the museum metadata identifies the subject as “Still Life” with the title Shoes.
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Representations of Everyday Objects Visual · 96%
The shoes are recognizable ordinary objects, with visible laces, soles, openings, folds, and worn surfaces.
Visual Qualities
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Dense Composition Visual · 90%
Several overlapping shoes form a compressed central cluster, with relatively little inactive space around the principal forms.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Both · 99%
The image is visibly a painted composition, and the museum classifies the work as Painting/Paintings.
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum specifies the medium as oil on canvas.
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Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 98%
The surface is built from conspicuous short and broad directional strokes, especially across the shoes and the surrounding ground.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The work is dated 1888, placing it within nineteenth-century art.
Geographic Regions
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Dutch Art Metadata · 97%
The artist is identified in the museum record as Dutch.
Source & rights
Vincent van Gogh. Shoes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 3,803 × 3,180 · Metropolitan Museum Of Art · Available