# Wheat Field with Cypresses

**Vincent van Gogh** (Dutch, 1853–1890)  
1889  
Oil on canvas  
28 13/16 × 36 3/4 in. (73.2 × 93.4 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.132. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436535).

## About this work

Ripe wheat sways under a sky of swirling white clouds, while dark cypresses rise like green flames at the right and blue hills roll in the distance. Van Gogh painted the scene outdoors near the asylum at Saint-Rémy in the summer of 1889; he thought highly of it and later made two further versions in his studio. In a letter he compared the cypresses, in their beauty of line and proportion, to an Egyptian obelisk. The thick, rhythmic brushwork gives every part of the landscape the same restless energy.

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Vincent van Gogh painted this in 1889, aged 36. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Vincent van Gogh](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/vincent-van-gogh)

Dutch, 1853–1890; born in Zundert; died in Auvers-sur-Oise

Van Gogh worked as an art dealer, teacher and lay preacher before he turned to art in 1880, at twenty-seven. His early pictures of Dutch peasants are dark and heavy; in Paris from 1886 he met the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists, and his palette brightened. In Arles in 1888–89 he painted with intense colour and thick, directional strokes, and he worked on at the asylum in Saint-Rémy and finally at Auvers-sur-Oise. The Poet’s Garden belongs to a group made to decorate Gauguin’s room in the Yellow House.

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## Facts

- Type: Paintings
- The artist was 36
- Real size: about 29 × 37 in (73 × 93 cm). The 24 × 36 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Post-Impressionism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/post-impressionism)
- Subjects: Landscapes, Cypresses, Summer
- Colour: green
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56; 18 × 24 in $68; 20 × 30 in $86; 24 × 36 in $108
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164; 20 × 30 in $208; 24 × 36 in $258
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118; 20 × 30 in $148
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5; 24 × 36 in $5

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/wheat-field-with-cypresses-met-436535).