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Vincent van Gogh : Bird's-Eye View of the Village ( )
Artist	Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) Alternative names Vincent Willem van Gogh Description Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker Date of birth/death 30 March 1853 29 July 1890 Location of birth/death Zundert Auvers-sur-Oise Work period between circa 1880 and circa July 1890 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902 Work location Netherlands ( Etten , The Hague , Nuenen , …, before 1886 date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890) Authority file : Q5582 VIAF : 9854560 ISNI : 0000000120955689 ULAN : 500115588 LCCN : n79022935 NLA : 35130087 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q5582
Title	Bird's-Eye View of the Village label QS:Len,"Bird's-Eye View of the Village"
Date	1889
Medium	pencil and wash on paper
Dimensions	height: 23.8 cm (9.3 in); width: 63.8 cm (25.1 in) dimensions QS:P2048,23.8U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,63.8U174728 (sheet) height: 16.5 cm (6.4 in); width: 30.1 cm (11.8 in) dimensions QS:P2048,16.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,30.1U174728
Collection	Van Gogh Museum Native name Van Gogh Museum Location Amsterdam , Netherlands Coordinates 52° 21′ 30″ N, 4° 52′ 52″ E Established 1973 Website www.vangoghmuseum.nl Authority file : Q224124 VIAF : 157780694 ISNI : 000000040369348X ULAN : 500275558 LCCN : nr96012202 NLA : 35453019 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q224124
Accession number	d0209V1969v
Object history	Mrs. J. van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam V.W. van Gogh, Laren Vincent van Gogh Museum
Notes	The drawing is the left sketch on a larger sheet which has a sketch of a perspective frame on the right. The reverse side of this sheet carries the drawings Chestnut Leaf with Pod and Landscape with Cypresses . Catalogues raisonnés: F1541v: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings , Amsterdam : J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 1541v . JH1729 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh , Oxford: Phaidon, no. 1729. The drawing is generally taken to be a study for Starry Night and is thus dated to May-June by the Van Gogh Museum ( Naifeh, Smith n. 314 ). However Ronald Pickvance thought the drawing was probably dated later (Pickvance p. 103). The drawing is nevertheless certainly a careful sketch of St. Rémy-de-Provence . Note that Vincent has included the rotunda (and a suggestion of the neoclassioc vestibule) of the church, omitting them in his painting Starry Night . Pickvance thought the steeple in that painting more Dutch than Provence, the first of Vincent's "memories of the North" ( des souvenirs du nord ) he was to refer to in a later letter from Saint-Rémy, his first letter after his most serious collapse at the beginning of 1890 (Pickvance p. 103). [1]
References	Steven Naifeh; Gregory White Smith (2011) Van Gogh: The Life , Profile Books ISBN : 978-1846680106 . Colta Ives; Susan Alyson Stein; Sjraar van Heugten; Marije Vellekoop (2005) Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings , Category:New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN : 978-1588391650 . Ronald Pickvance (1986) Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers , Category:New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN : 0-87099-477-8 .
Source/Photographer	Museum page
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Other versions	Full sheet

1. ↑ Letter 863: To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 29 April 1890 . Vincent van Gogh: The Letters . Van Gogh Museum . "What can I tell you of these two last months ... While I was ill I nevertheless still did a few small canvases from memory which you’ll see later, reminiscences of the north, ..."