Three women stand on or next to a ladder picking olives in an orchard in this horizontal landscape painting. The women, trees, ground, and sky are all painted with long, parallel brushstrokes that curve and swirl over the canvas. The palette is dominated by sage and laurel green, tan and chocolate brown, spruce blue, and eggshell white. The women are outlined with dark brown lines. All three wear long skirts and long-sleeved shirts, and all reach for olives on the trees or into baskets. One woman, to our left, stands on the ladder and faces us; the second woman leans or sits against the…
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The Olive Orchard

painter Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 - 1890)

1889

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73 × 92 cm (28 3/4 × 36 1/4 in.) ; framed: 97.5 x 114.9 x 10.1 cm (38 3/8 x 45 1/4 x 4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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