At Eternity's Gate
1890 · Oil on canvas · Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
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About this work
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
- Year
- 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 81.8 × 65.5 cm
- Collection
- Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
An old man in a blue smock sits on a wooden chair by a stove, elbows on his knees and face buried in his fists. Van Gogh painted it at the asylum of Saint-Rémy in May 1890, two months before his death, from a lithograph he had made in The Hague in 1882 of a pensioner named Adrianus Zuyderland, whom he had drawn many times; the original title was Worn Out, and the Dutch name is Sorrowing Old Man. He wrote of the earlier drawing that it expressed the sense of something on high, close to God, in a poor old man who has no idea of it, hence At Eternity's Gate. The thick strokes of the floorboards and the glowing stove are the asylum style at its most compressed. The painting is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
An old man in blue with his face in his hands beside a stove, in blue, ochre and warm floorboard orange, for a study, reading corner or bedroom at 24×36 in natural wood. Cream, warm grey or soft blue walls suit the colours; pair it with The Potato Eaters.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1890)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- bedroom, study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — natural wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
