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Bateaux de sable à quai (Sand Barges Moored at the Quay), Arles

Vincent Van Gogh, The Netherlands, active in France, 1853 – 1890

Rhone River scene in Arles: Two boats loaded with sand are moored by a stone quay. A man with a loaded wheelbarrow is traversing a plank gangway from one of the boats to the quay, two figures are fishing at left middleground, and two sailboats float towards a bridge on the horizon in the upper right.

Date

August 14, 1888

Type

landscapes

Medium

Reed pen and brown ink, graphite on cream wove paper

Department

CHNDM

Institution

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Object number

chndm_1960-232-1

Credit

Gift of Miss Edith Wetmore