A subject with no second instance

The record dates Prisoners Exercising (Prisoners Round) to 1890, the Auvers year that closes this chronology. Prisoners are named in one title in the whole catalogue. The final year is smaller than the two before it — eighty-four works, against 116 dated 1889 — so a unique subject inside it stands out more sharply than the same thing would in 1888.

What the record gives

The canvas measures 80 by 64 centimetres, an upright, and it is held by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, one of two works there dated 1890. The measured palette reads as green and yellow.

Works made after other works

Titles containing the word after — the record's marker for a work made from another artist's composition — number twenty-three in this catalogue: one dated 1887, fifteen dated 1889 and seven dated 1890. That habit is almost entirely a phenomenon of the last two years. This entry does not carry the word in its title, so nothing is claimed here about its relation to any other composition; the count is given because the year it belongs to is defined partly by that practice.