Provenance

John Enthoven

Dutch, 1885 - 1955

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Rectangular plots of flowers, each in a single color, stretch toward us below a sky nearly filled with cream-white clouds in this horizontal landscape painting. Together, the monochromatic plots create the impression of a patchwork quilt, with large areas of pale pink, butter yellow, bright white, and baby blue. A person walks across the plots to our right. The horizon line comes almost halfway up the painting and is lined with dark brown houses with tall, pitched roofs. Two barren trees twist into the cloudy sky. The loose, short, parallel brushstrokes and touches of paint create a soft, hazy effect.
Vincent van Gogh, Flower Beds in Holland, c. 1883, oil on canvas on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.21

Flower Beds in Holland

Vincent van Gogh · c. 1883 · oil on canvas on wood ·  Accession ID  1983.1.21

Bibliography

1991

  • Enthoven, P.H. Kroniek van het geslacht Enthoven, 1991

2003

  • ten Berge, Jos. "The Enthoven Mystery," in The paintings of Vincent van Gogh in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 2003:424-427

2004

  • Lodewijk Cornelis Enthoven, Verzamelaar te Voorburg, exh. cat., Museum Swaenstyn, Voorburg, 2004