Memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles) [SEP] creator
Memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles)
Memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It was executed in Arles around November 1888 and is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum. It was intended as decoration for his bedroom at the Yellow House.
Background.
The "Garden at Etten" refers to the parsonage garden at Etten (now Etten-Leur) where Vincent's father, pastor Theodorus van Gogh, had been called in
paint a little as he recovered. He described painting a few canvases from memory, which he had experimented with in F496 "Memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles)" while painting with Gauguin, in a letter to Theo dated 29 April.
He called these paintings "souvenirs du nord", "reminisces of the North". He mentions he might redo F83 "The Cottage" (above left) and F84 "The Old Church Tower at Nuenen".
He is more explicit in a