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Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
Early 1887
- Medium
- Oil on canvas, mounted on pressboard
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 43.6 × 33 cm (17 1/8 × 13 in.); Framed: 61 × 50.8 × 7 cm (24 × 20 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Paris
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
This painting dates from the winter of 1887, roughly a year after Vincent van Gogh arrived in Paris to join his brother, the art dealer Theo van Gogh. It is one of a group of landscapes featuring the Butte Montmartre, a short climb from the apartment on the rue Lepic where Vincent and Theo lived. Montmartre was dotted with reminders of its quickly receding rural past—abandoned quarries, kitchen gardens, and three surviving windmills, including the Moulin de Blute-Fin. The nonfunctional mill had become a tourist attraction, affording spectacular panoramic views over Paris from the observation tower erected beside it.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
