Винсент Ван Гог - Сад у дома священника в снегу, Нюэнен 1885

The Old Cemetery Tower at Nuenen in the Snow 1885 The Old Station at Eindhoven 1885 The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow 1885 The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow 1885 Head of a Peasant Woman with Dark Cap 1885 Peasant Making a Basket 1885 Scheveningen Woman Sewing
Винсент Ван Гог - Сад у дома священника в снегу, Нюэнен 1885

Сад у дома священника в снегу, Нюэнен 1885
51x77см холст/масло
Pasadena, California, The Norton Simon Museum of Art

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From The Norton Simon Museum of Art:
Van Gogh’s father was a Protestant minister; the artist himself had studied theology and pursued missionary work briefly before settling with his parents in the vicarage of a remote Dutch town in 1883. In this view across the vicarage garden, a lone figure clears a path, though the leafless bushes—or perhaps markers at left give us pause: is this man shoveling snow, or digging a grave? From bare trees to dirty snow, to wintry, scumbled sky, the landscape is willfully, unremittingly bleak, a painted equivalent to Émile Zola’s grim Naturalist novels of the same period.