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The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (F415) The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (F415) depicts three boats floating on a calm sea with special attention to light and color. A fisherman is visible guiding the boat in the painting’s foreground.
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃tmaʁi d(ə) la mɛʁ], alternatively with the definite article Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, lit. "(the) Saint Marys of the Sea", locally Les Saintes, [le sɛ̃t]; Provençal: Lei Santei Marias de la Mar (classical norm) or Li Sànti Marìo de la Mar (Mistralian norm)), is the capital of the Camargue (Provençal: Camarga) natural region in ...
The Yellow House (Dutch: Het gele huis), alternatively named The Street (Dutch: De straat), [1] [2] is an 1888 oil painting by the 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The house was the right wing of 2 Place Lamartine, Arles , France, where, on May 1, 1888, Van Gogh rented four rooms.
Despite a picturesque appearance highlighted by a few old residences (one of which retains traces of half-timbering, [4] the only testimony to a method of construction once very widespread in Saintes), rue Alsace-Lorraine was completely redesigned in 18th century as part of an urban plan implemented by the intendants Auget de Montyon and Guéau de Reverseaux [].
Jean de Venette, author of a poem on the "History of the Three Marys," says that he visited Pierre de Nantes , bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, then suffering from gout, and that the latter was healing only through the intercession of the Three Marys. The bishop then made a pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in 1357. [11]
A yellow house stands at the side of the lane. The use of color in the painting is typical of Van Gogh in this period. The colors are bright and alive, lighting up the canvas and offering a view that is more perceived than experienced.
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Trees and Undergrowth is the subject of paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in Paris, Saint-Rémy and Auvers, from 1887 through 1890. Van Gogh made several paintings of undergrowth, a genre of painting known as sous-bois that was brought into prominence by artists of the Barbizon School and the early Impressionists. The works from this series ...