Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh, 1889: a complete artwork record with medium, dimensions, credit, accession number, full image and a link to The Met source.
Landscape / Collection example
Vincent van Gogh
Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28 13/16 × 36 3/4 in. (73.2 × 93.4 cm)
- Credit
- Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1993
- Accession number
- 1993.132
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image rights
- Public Domain · Open Access (CC0)
A landscape in motion.
Look at the picture before reading further. What catches your attention first: the golden foreground, the tall dark trees or the pale shapes in the sky?
Curved marks repeat through the clouds and hills. Shorter, denser marks describe the field. The upright cypresses hold a darker shape against those horizontal layers.
Compare the movement in different parts of the picture. Then look at the dimensions: the original canvas is 73.2 × 93.4cm, which may differ considerably from its size on your screen.
This short looking prompt describes visible features, rather than claiming the artist’s intentions. Factual metadata is drawn from the linked institutional record.
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