Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Industry, twice in ten years
The record dates Factory to 1882. Factories are named in three titles in this catalogue of 610 works: this one, and two dated 1887 that belong to Asnieres outside Paris. A subject that appears twice, one time in the Dutch years and twice five years later in France, is exactly the kind of thread a chronological arrangement is built to hold.
What the record gives
The work is held by the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, which holds one entry in this catalogue. No dimensions are recorded. The measured palette reads as neutral.
Neutral, and what it means here
Neutral is an uncommon reading in the palette measurement: twenty-six of the 610 works return it, and this is the only one dated 1882. The count peaks at seven in 1885 and again in 1886, then falls away. A neutral reading records which family dominates a surface, not how dark or light it is, and on an 1882 canvas it sits beside the browns that dominate five of the thirteen works of that year. Nothing more is claimed: the record gives a title, a year, a city and a measurement, and this page stops where the card does.
Sources
2 references- Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he c
- Vincent van Gogh - The Factory - BF303 - Barnes Foundation — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
