# Road in Etten, in Post-Impressionism

Vincent van Gogh painted this in 1881, aged 28. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A road lined with trees runs through the flat countryside near Etten, the village in the southern Netherlands where Van Gogh’s father was pastor and where the young artist lived in 1881, in the first year of his career as an artist.

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## The work

- Date: 1881
- Medium: Chalk, pencil, pastel, watercolor. Underdrawing in pen and brown ink.
- Dimensions: 15 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. (39.4 x 57.8 cm)
- Type: Drawings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.774
- 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)
- [More drawings of the 19th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/drawing-19?hang=749) (92 works)
- [19th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-netherlands?hang=749) (21 works)

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