# Wheat Field with Cypresses, in Post-Impressionism

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

Our note:

> 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.

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## The work

- Date: 1889
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 28 13/16 × 36 3/4 in. (73.2 × 93.4 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.132
- 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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