Lane in Voyer dArgenson Park at Asnières

Vincent van Gogh

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Work Overview

Lane in Voyer d'Argenson Park at Asnières
Spring, 1887
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.


Lane in Voyer d'Argenson Park at Asnières is believed to decorate the wall in another Van Gogh painting, Interior of a Restaurant (F342).


Van Gogh's work in his first year in Paris retained much of the somber attitude and colors of his paintings from the Netherlands. During the spring of 1887 he stayed with Émile Bernard at Bernard's parents home in Asnières. During that time van Gogh began to incorporate the influences he had been exposed to over the past year. His work lightened in "sun-drenched studies". Landscapes began to dominate his subject matter, painted in "the glory of summer and the rich colors of the vegetation". He now caught the sunlight between the leaves.