The record dates The Boulevard de Clichy to 1887. Clichy is named in four titles in this catalogue, every one of them dated 1887, and the Rue Lepic in two more, also both dated 1887. Street names are among the cleanest dating signals the titles carry, and in this catalogue they cluster in 1887.
The canvas measures 45.5 by 55 centimetres and it is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. That collection holds thirty-four works dated 1887 — its largest single year here, out of 135 in total. The measured palette reads as ochre.
1887 holds ninety-five works, against sixty-one for 1886 and seventy for 1885. Only 1888 and 1889 are larger. The Paris period is therefore not a pause between the Dutch work and Provence but the point at which the corpus roughly doubles, and the titles at the same moment shift from trades and cottages to boulevards. Ochre, measured here, dominates twenty-one works of the year. Where the painter stood to make the view is not something the record establishes.
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
Dutch art dealer, 1866-1911
The Boulevard de Clichy (French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ də kliʃi]), also known as the Boulevard Clichy, is a famous street of Paris, which lends its name to the Place de Clichy. It results from the fusion, in 1864, of the roads that parallel
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
Louie Drehmer, Curator, Vincent van Gogh Paintings
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The Boulevard de Clichy is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1887, held at Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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