Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
1890 is the yellowest year in the measurements
The record dates Morning, Going to Work to 1890, and the measured palette reads as yellow. Yellow dominates sixty-two of the eighty-four works dated 1890 — a larger share of its year than 1888's ninety-three of 135 or 1889's seventy-six of 116. The Auvers period is the smallest of the five but the most uniform in what the palette measurement returns.
What the record gives
The canvas measures 73 by 92 centimetres and it is held by the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, one of three works there dated 1890 out of eight in this catalogue.
A time of day, named once
Morning appears in one title across the 610 entries here. Times of day are scarce in these titles compared with places: sunset, dusk, twilight and evening between them account for thirteen. Titles that name work in the fields, by contrast, run through every period of the catalogue. Whether the title's hour describes the picture or only names its subject is not something the record settles, and this page does not settle it either.
