The record dates The Langlois Bridge to 1888, the Arles year. It is one of four canvases in this catalogue whose titles name that bridge, and all four carry the same date: The Langlois Bridge at Arles, The Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing, The Langlois Bridge at Arles with Road Alongside, and this one. Four versions of one drawbridge in one year is the tightest cluster of repetitions in the Arles period here.
The canvas measures 49.5 x 64 cm โ smaller than most of the Arles works, which cluster around 73 x 92 cm โ and it is held by the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne. The measured palette returns blue as the single dominant family.
The differences between the four are recorded in the titles themselves: one adds women washing at the water's edge, another a road running alongside. Those are the painter's own variations on a fixed motif, and they are visible in the record without any need to interpret the pictures. A chronology that flattened them into a single entry would report one bridge painting from 1888 where the record reports four, in four sizes, in four collections.
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
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The Langlois Bridge is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1888, held at Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany.
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