Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
1884, at the middle of the first period
The record dates Village at sunset to 1884. In the five-place chronology this site uses, that falls inside Nuenen, 1883-1885 — the period the catalogue describes as earth tones and thick shadow, and the one where the measured palettes agree with the description more consistently than in any later stretch.
What the record gives
The work is held by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, one of five entries here in that collection, dated 1884, 1887 and 1889. No dimensions are recorded. The measured palette reads as brown, the reading for eighteen of the twenty-five works dated 1884.
Village, twice more, six years later
Three titles in this catalogue begin with the word village. This one is dated 1884; the other two are dated 1890 and both name the same street of steps at Auvers. A word that skips six years and reappears at the far end of the chronology is the sort of pattern that only a dated arrangement makes visible, and it is a pattern in the titles rather than in the pictures — which is all this page claims for it. Nothing in the record identifies the village named here.
