The Church at Auvers
1890 · Oil on canvas · Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
- Year
- 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 94 × 74 cm
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
The Gothic church of Auvers-sur-Oise rises against a sky of thick cobalt blue, its walls leaning and its windows a dark violet, while a woman in a Breton cap walks away down a forked path through green grass flecked with pink. Van Gogh painted it in June 1890, a month after arriving in the village north of Paris where he would die in July, and described it to his sister Wil as an effect in which the building appears violet against a deep blue sky, with the sky itself pure cobalt. The orange roof and the writhing outline recall the churches of his Dutch youth seen through the colour of Provence. It was bought for the French national collections in 1951 and is in the Musée d'Orsay.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A leaning village church in violet and orange under a thick cobalt sky, with a forked green path, for a hallway, living room or bedroom at 18×24 in dark wood. Cream, soft blue or sage walls suit it; pair it with Wheatfield with Crows.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1890)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, hallway or entryway, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 18×24. Prints at 12×16, 18×24 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
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.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
