Shop art print and framed art The Garden at Arles by Vincent van Gogh

Souvenir du jardin à Etten (or Les Femmes d'Arles) is a painting by Vincent van Gogh, painted in 1888 and housed in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. This oil on canvas measures 73.5 cm high by 92.5 cm wide. Van Gogh painted it in November 1888, when he was in Arles with Gauguin, to decorate his room in the Yellow House. The composition is also reminiscent of Gauguin's Le Jardin de la clinique d'Arles. In his correspondence with his brother Theo, Vincent van Gogh twice mentioned this painting, which he entitled Souvenir du jardin à Etten. In a letter to his sister Willemina, he states that he was inspired by the faces of Willemina and their mother for these figures of women. The "Etten garden" refers to the garden at the Etten home of Vincent van Gogh's father, the pastor Theodorus van Gogh, who had been called to the small town in 1875. Vincent spent several periods there, including a memorable one from Easter to Christmas 1881, before reuniting with his brother Theo and embarking on his vocation as a painter. The Etten period represents the beginning of Vincent's ten-year career as an artist. This painting was part of Émile Schuffenecker's collection in Clamart (inventoried in 1908), and then of Sergei Shchukin's immense collection in Moscow, before it was nationalised in 1918. The painting was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Western Art in Moscow before being transferred to the Hermitage in 1948, where it is kept under inventory number [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the post-impressionism style.

 

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