Talk:Sunset at Montmajour

Trees

The trees in the picture have gone from oaks, to scrub oaks, to kermès oaks. Is this supported by any source? --LukeSurl ^{t c} 21:19, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

• The area he was painting is called the Garrigue. Naturally, people comment on Van Gogh's love for the region and expound on the vegetation. Abductive (reasoning) 00:31, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
  • Anyway, the present form of the article, in which van Gogh's own description of "very small twisted oaks" is given, and a link to the Garrigue article wherein the flora is listed, is very good. Abductive (reasoning) 06:43, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Identity of Mustad's advisor

There is some question as to whether it was the French Ambassador or some other collector. Don't delete the line "according to his family". Amandajm (talk) 06:46, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

File:Sunset at Montmajour 1888 Van Gogh.jpg to appear as POTD

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Sunset at Montmajour 1888 Van Gogh.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on February 10, 2015. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2015-02-10. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Picture of the day

Sunset at Montmajour is an oil painting on canvas, depicting a landscape of garrigue with the ruins of Montmajour Abbey in the background, painted by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in 1888, when he lived in Arles, France, and inventoried by his brother Theo. It had several owners and was eventually purchased in 1908 by the Norwegian industrialist Christian Nicolai Mustad, who placed it in storage when told it was not actually by van Gogh. It was only reestablished as part of the artist's oeuvre in 2013, the first full-sized Van Gogh painting to be newly confirmed since 1928.Painting: Vincent van Gogh

Credit to the article's creator, who must be awesome too. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 19:01, 22 January 2015 (UTC)