Landscape with a Carriage and a Train

Landscape with a Carriage and a Train is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in June 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

Background Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left an asylum at Saint-Rémy in May 1890. He made the painting in the week following his portraits of Dr. Gachet.Hulsker (1980) p. 462 The viewpoint from above was a favourite perspective of his since his days sketching in the dunes of Scheveningen at The Hague with the aid of a perspective frame.Naifeh and Smith (2011) pp. 290-3

Van Gogh described the painting in a letter to his sister Wil:

The painting is in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.

See also List of works by Vincent van Gogh

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References

Bibliography de la Faille, Jacob-Baart. The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1970. Hulsker, Jan. The Complete Van Gogh. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White. Van Gogh: The Life. Profile Books, 2011. van der Veen, Wouter; Knapp, Peter. Van Gogh in Auvers: His Last Days. Monacelli Press, 2010.

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