1888 Arles Public domain

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Arles · 1888–1889

The Yellow House

La Maison jaune · 黄房子

Vincent's rented house on the Place Lamartine, painted as a manifesto for the studio he hoped to build there.

About the painting

Van Gogh Museum.

Period

The Yellow House, the orchards and the strongest light he ever painted.

Year: 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Arles (1888–1889)
Collection: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Palette: sulphur yellow, blue, green

Reference articles · 10

Ten angles on one painting: what it shows, how it was painted, what Vincent wrote, where it hangs, how it survives printing, and what to hang it next to.