Thatched Cottages and Houses

Thatched cottages at Cordeville, 1890
Thatched cottages at Cordeville, 1890
Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	1890
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	60 cm × 73 cm (24.0 in × 27.8 in)
Location	https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/chaumes-de-cordeville-auvers-sur-oise-754

Thatched Cottages at Cordeville, 1890 or Chaumes de Cordeville à Auvers-sur-Oise (literally Thatches of Cordeville at Auvers-sur-Oise) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that was painted in May 1890 while living in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.^[1]

Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left the asylum in Saint-Rémy in May 1890.

Thatched Cottage of Cordeville, 1890 or Chaumes de Cordeville à Auvers-sur-Oise (literally Thatches of Cordeville at Auvers-sur-Oise) is thought to be the study he mentions in his letter of 21 May 1890 to his brother Theo and wife Jo immediately after arriving in Auvers:"... when I wrote to you I hadn’t yet done anything. Now I have a study of old thatched roofs with a field of peas in flower and some wheat in the foreground, hilly background. A study which I think you’ll like."^[2]

Hulsker believes the painting is amongst a group of 20 or so works executed by Vincent immediately after his arrival in Auvers, May 20, and the remainder of the month:" ... we immediately see in this painting the bright colours that, generally speaking, are characteristic of the Auvers period and differentiate them somewhat from the paintings done in Saint-Rémy - although there is naturally no question of a real break with the past from one week to the next."^[3]

The painting is in the Musee d'Orsay https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/chaumes-de-cordeville-auvers-sur-oise-754

See Van Gogh, Artistic breakthrough and final years, Auves-sur-Oise

References

^ van der Veen, Wouter; Knapp, Peter (2010). Van Gogh in Auvers: His Last Days. The Monacelli Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-1-58093-301-8.
^ "To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Wednesday, 21 May". Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Vincent van Gogh Museum. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
^ Hulsker, Jan (1986). The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches. New York, N.Y: Harrison House/Harry N. Abrams Distributed by Crown Publishers, Random House. p. 457. ISBN 0-517-44867-X.