The Banks of the Seine

Vincent van Gogh

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The Banks of the Seine
Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1887; Paris, France *
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: landscape
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands


Van Gogh remained anxious and lonely during his first year in Paris, but with the spring in 1887 he began to explore outside of central Paris for more pastoral settings. From Rue Lepic in Montmartre van Gogh took the Boulevard de Clichy to the southern banks of the Seine in the old Commune de Clichy. Beyond that was Asnières and La Grand Jatte island, also the scene of van Gogh's paintings of the Seine.