Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Orchard under the Church of Bihorel
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Paul Gauguin (French painter, 1848-1903)
Location:
repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. (CTB.1992.6)
Location Note:
Paseo del Prado, 8
GPS:
40.416111-3.695
Date:
1884 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Impressionist; Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
65.5 cm (height) x 46 cm (width)
Subjects:
agriculture; genre; landscape
Description:
Gauguin moved to Rouen with his wife and four of his five children in January 1884. He had given up his job in the Paris stock-exchange, and made the momentous decision to become a full-time painter. An Orchard under the Church of Bihorel is one of three canvases showing what must have been the orchard of the house he rented, with his children at play. Above them, on a steeply rising hill is the church of Notre-Dame-des-Anges . Stylistically, it reflects Pissarro's garden paintings of Pontoise that Gauguin knew intimately. But Gauguin also knew the work of Cézanne: the off-center tree, clearly the lynchpin of the design as well as the echoes of Cézanne's formalist, so-called constructive stroke attest to that. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothy ssen.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-GAUGUIN-TBM-POB- A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Orchard under the Church of Bihorel