''Landscape with a Carriage and a Train'' is an oil painting by

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...

that he painted in June 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

Background

Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left an asylum at Saint-Rémy in May 1890. He made the painting in the week following his portraits of Dr. Gachet. The viewpoint from above was a favourite perspective of his since his days sketching in the dunes of Scheveningen at

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with the aid of a perspective frame.Naifeh and Smith (2011) pp. 290-3 Van Gogh described the painting in a letter to his sister

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: The painting is in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts,

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Works

Letters

References

Bibliography

* de la Faille, Jacob-Baart. ''The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings''. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1970. * Hulsker, Jan. ''The Complete Van Gogh''. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. * Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White. ''Van Gogh: The Life''. Profile Books, 2011. * van der Veen, Wouter; Knapp, Peter. ''Van Gogh in Auvers: His Last Days''. Monacelli Press, 2010.

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