View of the Alpilles

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1890

oil on canvas, 33 cm x 28.5 cm

Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands, bequest of A.E. Ribbius Peletier)

Bluish-purple mountains stand out against the sky. The rugged, bare rock faces contrast with the charm of the flowering trees in the foreground. Van Gogh made this little painting in the walled wheatfield next to the hospital in Saint-Rémy (FR). He could look out of his bedroom window onto that field, with the Alpilles mountain range in the distance.

He wrote to Theo, ' I could certainly do an entire series of these Alpilles, for having seen them for a long time now I’ve got used to it a little.'

F-number
F0723
JH-number
JH1722
Object number
s0417N1990
Dimensions
33 cm x 28.5 cm, 47.5 cm x 42 cm
Provenance
With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after June 1890; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; sold by Jo van Gogh-Bonger to Kunsthandel C.M. van Gogh, Amsterdam, June 1911; sold by Kunsthandel C.M. van Gogh (J.H. de Bois) to G. Ribbius Peletier, Utrecht for NLG 1.800, June 1911; after his death on 10 November 1930 inherited by his widow A. Ribbius Peletier-Wijbelingh, Utrecht; after her death on 3 December 1939 inherited by her daughter A.E. Ribbius Peletier, Amsterdam/Scheveningen; after her death on 30 September 1989 her legacy in 1990 to the State of the Netherlands, for installation in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Vincent van Gogh
Credits
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands, bequest of A.E. Ribbius Peletier)

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