Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
An upright landscape, in a year that measures well
The record dates A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul to 1889 and gives its size as 91.5 by 73 centimetres — taller than it is wide, which is uncommon for a landscape here. It is held by the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, one of fifteen works there dated 1889.
What the record gives
The measured palette reads as yellow, a single dominant family. Meadows are named in two titles in this catalogue, one dated 1889 and one dated 1890.
Saint-Remy in the titles
The name Saint-Paul, which the record attaches to the institution in this title, appears in twelve titles in the catalogue, eleven of them dated 1889 and one dated 1890. That is how tightly the fourth period is bounded: a name that occurs twelve times and almost never outside one year. Yellow, measured here, dominates seventy-six of the 116 works of that year. What the place was, beyond the words on the card, and what the painter's circumstances were there, the record does not establish, and this page does not supply it.
