Thatched Cottages and Houses
1890 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh
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Thatched Cottages at Cordeville, 1890 or Chaumes de Cordeville à Auvers-sur-Oise (literally Thatches of Cordeville at Auvers-sur-Oise) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that was painted in May 1890 while living in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.[1]
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| Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
| Year | 1890 |
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| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 60 cm × 73 cm (24.0 in × 27.8 in) |
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| Website | Chaumes de Cordeville à Auvers-sur-Oise |
Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left the asylum in Saint-Rémy in May 1890.
Thatched Cottage of Cordeville, 1890 or Chaumes de Cordeville à Auvers-sur-Oise (literally Thatches of Cordeville at Auvers-sur-Oise) is thought to be the study he mentions in his letter of 21 May 1890 to his brother Theo and wife Jo immediately after arriving in Auvers:"... when I wrote to you I hadn’t yet done anything. Now I have a study of old thatched roofs with a field of peas in flower and some wheat in the foreground, hilly background. A study which I think you’ll like."[2]
Hulsker believes the painting is amongst a group of 20 or so works executed by Vincent immediately after his arrival in Auvers, May 20, and the remainder of the month:" ... we immediately see in this painting the bright colours that, generally speaking, are characteristic of the Auvers period and differentiate them somewhat from the paintings done in Saint-Rémy - although there is naturally no question of a real break with the past from one week to the next."[3]
The painting is in the Musee d'Orsay.[4]
See Van Gogh, Artistic breakthrough and final years, Auves-sur-Oise
