Vincent_van_Gogh_-_Oleander.jpg
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Summary
Vincent van Gogh : Oleanders | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q5582
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Title |
Oleander
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | still life | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1888
date QS:P571,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions |
height: 60.3 cm (23.7 in); width: 73.7 cm (29 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,60.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,73.7U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236
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Accession number |
62.24
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Place of creation | Arles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
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Credit line | Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb, 1962 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes |
English:
For Van Gogh, oleanders were joyous, life-affirming flowers that bloomed "riotously" and were "continually renewing" themselves. In this painting of August 1888 the flowers fill a majolica jug that the artist used for other still lifes made in Arles. They are symbolically juxtaposed with Émile Zola's "La joie de vivre," a novel that Van Gogh had placed in contrast to an open Bible in a Nuenen still life of 1885.
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Source/Photographer | metmuseum.org |
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