A white path and gray stone wall wind through ochre and harvest-yellow fields beneath a brilliant, turquoise sky in this stylized, horizontal landscape painting. The scene is created with long, visible brushstrokes of vivid color. Closest to us, the field is painted with vertical strokes of golden yellow and pea green. Touches of cardinal red and slashes of pine green create flowers around the end of the stone wall, which curves toward us from the background, at the center of this painting. The wall is painted with horizontal dashes of lilac and lavender purple, salmon pink, and periwinkle blue. A person wearing peach-colored trousers, a peacock-blue shirt, and a dark hat walks away from us, into the field, to our left of the wall. The white road enters the scene from the right, and meets the stone wall and a second wall on the far side of the road at a gate. Two columns rise from the walls to mark the spot of the gate, which opens into a property with three tall haystacks and a house. To our left, the house is painted with areas of warm yellow for the walls, honey brown for the roof, which is outlined in navy blue, and turquoise for the doors and windows. A few green trees, made of dots of bottle and forest green, are scattered near the house and haystacks. One sapphire-blue tree grows near the house. A band of azure blue along the horizon, which comes about two-thirds of the way up the painting, suggests a mountain range in the distance. Swirls of white suggest clouds in the turquoise sky. The paint is visibly textured throughout.

Farmhouse in Provence

Vincent van Gogh

A white path and gray stone wall wind through ochre and harvest-yellow fields beneath a brilliant, turquoise sky in this stylized, horizontal landscape painting. The scene is created with long, visible brushstrokes of vivid color. Closest to us, the field is painted with vertical strokes of golden yellow and pea green. Touches of cardinal red and slashes of pine green create flowers around the end of the stone wall, which curves toward us from the background, at the center of this painting. The wall is painted with horizontal dashes of lilac and lavender purple, salmon pink, and periwinkle blue. A person wearing peach-colored trousers, a peacock-blue shirt, and a dark hat walks away from us, into the field, to our left of the wall. The white road enters the scene from the right, and meets the stone wall and a second wall on the far side of the road at a gate. Two columns rise from the walls to mark the spot of the gate, which opens into a property with three tall haystacks and a house. To our left, the house is painted with areas of warm yellow for the walls, honey brown for the roof, which is outlined in navy blue, and turquoise for the doors and windows. A few green trees, made of dots of bottle and forest green, are scattered near the house and haystacks. One sapphire-blue tree grows near the house. A band of azure blue along the horizon, which comes about two-thirds of the way up the painting, suggests a mountain range in the distance. Swirls of white suggest clouds in the turquoise sky. The paint is visibly textured throughout.

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Details
Artist
Vincent van Gogh
Date
1888
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 46.1 x 60.9 cm (18 1/8 x 24 in.) framed: 74.9 x 88.9 x 10.8 cm (29 1/2 x 35 x 4 1/4 in.)
Department
CF
Holding institution
National Gallery of Art
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Image provider
national-gallery-of-art
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Art Genome Taxonomy

8 tags

Subject Matter

  • Landscapes Both · 99%

    The title and catalog description identify a Provençal countryside scene, and the image visibly presents fields, a farmhouse, walls, a road, haystacks, and distant hills.

  • Rural Life Both · 98%

    A farmhouse, cultivated fields, haystacks, gate, and surrounding agricultural landscape visibly establish a rural setting, without requiring an inference that the figure is performing farm labor.

  • Figures in Nature Both · 96%

    One person is visibly walking away through the field, situated within the broader natural and cultivated landscape described by the catalog.

  • Flora Both · 95%

    Red flowering plants and abundant trees and vegetation are prominent in the image and are specifically noted in the catalog description.

Visual Qualities

  • Bright and Vivid Colors Both · 99%

    The image uses highly saturated turquoise, yellow, ochre, green, red, lilac, and blue passages, consistent with the catalog’s description of vivid color.

Medium and Techniques

  • Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

    The catalog identifies the medium as oil on canvas.

  • Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Both · 99%

    Long, separate, visibly textured strokes structure the sky, fields, wall, vegetation, and buildings; the catalog explicitly describes long visible brushstrokes and textured paint.

Time Periods

  • 19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

    The catalog dates the work to 1888, placing it within the nineteenth century.

Source & rights

Vincent van Gogh. Farmhouse in Provence. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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