# The Poet's Garden, in 19th-century Netherlands

Vincent van Gogh painted this in 1888, aged 35. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Lush grasses dotted with small white flowers lead into a grove of bushy trees in every shade from deep green to gold, beneath a heavy yellow sky.

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## The work

- Date: 1888
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 73 × 92.1 cm (28 3/4 × 36 1/4 in.); Framed: 96.6 × 116.9 cm (38 × 46 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.433
- 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.

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