Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Blossoming Chestnut Branches
Image View:
Close detail, showing impasto and brushwork
Creator:
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch painter, 1853-1890)
Location:
repository: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle (Zurich, Zürich [canton], Switzerland)
Location Note:
35 Rue du Dr Fanton (exhibition)
GPS:
43.678084 4.625612
Date:
1890 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Nineteenth century; Post-Impressionist
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
72 cm (height) x 91 cm (width)
Subjects:
botanical; still life; horse chestnut; Aesculus hippocastanum; tree
Description:
Blossoming Chestnut Branches was painted by Vincent van Gogh during the artist's Auvers-sur-Oise period in May 1890, the final year of his life. The painting was one of four missing after a high-profile theft from the Foundation E.G. Bührle gallery in Zürich on February 10, 2008. It was successfully returned to the Foundation. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-GOGH-BCB-A06
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Blossoming Chestnut Branches