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Vincent van GoghPays-Bas, 1853–1890Wheatfield under Thunderclouds
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Musée Van-Gogh
Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
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About the painting
Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds (in Dutch, Korenveld onder onweerslucht) is an 1890 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. The painting measures 50.4 cm × 101.3 cm (19.8 in × 39.9 in). It depicts a relatively flat and featureless landscape with fields of green wheat, under a foreboding dark blue sky with a few heavy white clouds. The horizon divides the work almost into two, with shades of green and yellow below and shades of blue and white above. Since 1973 it has been on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
This very late work was painted in early July 1890, just a few weeks before Van Gogh's death. It was one of several paintings of wheat fields that he made in Auvers-sur-Oise, in an unusually elongated double-square format: other examples include Wheatfield with Crows (F779) and Landscape at Auvers in the Rain (F811).
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In a letter of around 10 July 1890, Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo and sister-in-law Jo that he had already painted three large canvases at Auvers since visiting them in Paris on 6 July. One of the three paintings was Daubigny's Garden (F777). The other two he described as "immense stretches of wheatfields under turbulent skies" – probably this painting and Wheatfield with Crows – in which he was "trying to express sadness, extreme loneliness" (immenses étendues de blés sous des ciels troublés … chercher à exprimer de la tristesse, de la solitude extreme). He added that he intended to take them to Paris as soon as possible, as "these canvases will tell you what I can’t say in words, what I consider healthy and fortifying about the countryside" (j'espère vous les apporter à Paris le plus tôt possible … ces toiles vous diront ce que je ne sais dire en paroles, ce que je vois de sain et de fortifiant dans la campagne).
Van Gogh shot himself on 27 July and died in Auvers on 29 July 1890, by which time the three paintings were already with Theo van Gogh in Paris. On Theo's death in January 1891 they were inherited by his widow Johanna van Gogh-Bonger. She loaned the painting to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam from 1917 to 1919. After her death in 1925 it was inherited by Theo and Jo's son Vincent Willem van Gogh. It was transferred to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation (Vincent van Gogh Stichting) in 1962, and displayed at the Stedelijk Museum until 1973, then on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (known as the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh until 1994).
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- Numéro d’inventaire
- s0106V1962
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Musée Van-Gogh · 5 oct. 2026 — aujourd’hui · Vérifié
On ignore si elle est exposée aujourd’hui
Musée Van-Gogh · 29 sept. 2026 — 5 oct. 2026 · Non confirmé
Sources
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- Image : Musée Van-Gogh — Vincent van Gogh · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Pendant ce temps, chez Vincent van Gogh
La vie entièreFebruary 1888
To Arles, dreaming of a “Studio of the South”
The public still neither accepted nor bought his paintings, and in February 1888 Van Gogh left for Arles in the south of France to found a “Studio of the South”, a brotherhood of like-minded artists in which he gave Gauguin the leading role. Theo backed the plan with money.
23 October 1888
Gauguin arrives in Arles
After much pleading Gauguin arrived in Arles, and in November the two painted together: Gauguin portrayed Van Gogh in “The Painter of Sunflowers”, and their first joint outing was to the Alyscamps. At Gauguin's suggestion Vincent painted from memory, producing “Memory of the Garden at Etten”.
23 December 1888
The severed ear
After an altercation on the evening of 23 December, Van Gogh, seemingly hearing voices, severed his left ear, wholly or in part, with a razor and delivered it, wrapped in paper, to a woman at a brothel. Next morning a policeman found him unconscious; in hospital he was diagnosed with “acute mania with generalised delirium”.
May 1889
Voluntarily into the Saint-Paul asylum
Van Gogh left Arles and voluntarily entered the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, a former monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, accompanied by the Protestant clergyman Frédéric Salles. Of his two cells with barred windows one became a studio, and the clinic and its garden became the main subjects of his paintings.
27 July 1890
A fatal wound: a revolver shot
Out painting, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver he had bought to scare off birds while working outdoors; the bullet passed below his heart, and he made his own way back to his room at the inn. Theo arrived the next day and stayed with him to the end; according to Theo, Vincent's last words were: “The sadness will last forever.”
29 juillet 1890
Died
