# Avenue of Pollard Birches and Poplars, in 19th-century Netherlands

Vincent van Gogh painted this (March 1884), aged 31. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> A row of pollarded birches and poplars lines a country road near the village of Nuenen in the southern Netherlands, where Van Gogh lived with his parents from late 1883.

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## The work

- Date: March 1884
- Medium: Reed pen and iron-gall ink on tan laid paper
- Dimensions: 19.2 × 26.5 cm (7 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.74
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Vincent van Gogh](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/vincent-van-gogh), Dutch, 1853–1890

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.

14 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Vincent van Gogh](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/vincent-van-gogh?hang=749) (14 works)
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- [The 19th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19?hang=749) (731 works)

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