The record dates Lane with poplars near Nuenen to 1885 and measures it at 97.5 by 78 centimetres. Of the 333 works in this catalogue with a recorded size, only nine are larger. Sizes here are copied from holding institutions, so the extremes of the range are where the record is most worth stating plainly and least worth embroidering.
The work is held by the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, which holds four works in this catalogue, dated 1885, 1886 and 1888. The measured palette reads as yellow and green.
Nuenen gives the first period of this chronology its name, yet it appears in only five of the 610 titles: one dated 1884 and four dated 1885. After 1885 the word never occurs again. That is the cleanest kind of period marker a catalogue can hold โ a place-name with a hard stop โ and it is why a large 1885 canvas naming the village is a more useful entry than its size alone would suggest. The lane itself, and where it ran, the record does not describe.
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [หvษชnsษnt หสษชlษษฑ vษล หษฃษx] ; 30 March 1853 โ 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
Dutch art dealer, 1866-1911
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
Louie Drehmer, Curator, Vincent van Gogh Paintings
Louie curates Vincent van Gogh Paintings, cross-referencing every entry against museum records, Wikidata, the Getty Union List of Artist Names, and Wikipedia.
Lane with poplars near Nuenen is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1885, held at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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