# Arlésiennes (Mistral), in The Rotunda

Paul Gauguin painted this in 1888, aged 40. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> One of 17 canvases that Paul Gauguin completed during a brief and tumultuous visit with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, this powerful and enigmatic painting depicts the public garden directly across from Van Gogh’s house.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: 1888
- Medium: Oil on jute canvas
- Dimensions: 73 × 92 cm (28 3/4 × 36 3/16 in.); Framed: 97.5 × 116.6 × 8 cm (38 3/8 × 45 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1934.391
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Gauguin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-gauguin), French, 1848–1903

Gauguin worked as a Paris stockbroker and collected the Impressionists before taking up painting full time in the 1880s, showing in the last five Impressionist exhibitions.

10 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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