Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves
Vincent van Gogh
1889
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 48 × 62 cm (18 7/8 × 24 7/16 in.) framed: 65.72 × 79.38 × 8.57 cm (25 7/8 × 31 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
2014.18.13
About the Artist
Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) stands as one of the most influential figures in Western art history, despite a career spanning merely a decade. Born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, to a Protestant pastor's family, van Gogh's path to artistic greatness was anything but conventional. His early adulthood saw him working as an art dealer for Goupil & Cie, a language teacher, and a fervent missiona...