Paris in the Snow

Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903), Paris, 1894

oil on canvas, 72 cm x 88 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

This painting shows the view from the artist’s window. Gauguin had recently moved to the second floor of a building in the Montparnasse area of Paris. We know from contemporary weather reports that it snowed on 24 February 1894, so he probably made the painting around that date. On the shop front in the background are the partially legible words ‘Neufs Occasions’ (New and Secondhand).

Gauguin’s choice of subject is apparently casual. He has signed the picture in the shadow of the overhanging roof in the foreground.

Object number
s0223V1962
Dimensions
72 cm x 88 cm, 87.3 cm x 104 cm
Provenance
Given by the artist to Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum, May 1894; after her death on 2 September 1925, inherited by her son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren; donated by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Laren, 11 March 1952; transferred by the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation to the Theo van Gogh Foundation, Laren, 28 December 1960; donated by the Theo van Gogh Foundation to the (2nd) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, 21 July 1962; 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; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Paul Gauguin
Credits (obliged to state)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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