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Van Gogh painted several versions of A Wheatfield, with Cypresses during the summer of 1889, while he was a patient in the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Paul de Mausole, in the village of St-Rémy in the south of France. A first version, which he described as a study, was painted on site in late June 1889. The National Gallery’s painting, which was completed in September while Van Gogh was confined to his hospital room, is the finished version. He also made a smaller copy of it for his mother and sister. The landscape includes typically Provençal motifs such as a golden wheat field, tall evergreen cypresses, an olive bush and a backdrop of the blue Alpilles mountains. Van Gogh wrote of painting outdoors during the summer mistral, the strong, cold wind of southern France, which here seems to animate the entire landscape.
Title
A Wheatfield, with Cypresses
Date
1889
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 72.1 x W 90.9 cm
Accession number
NG3861
Acquisition method
Bought, 1923
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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