1889 · F508 · JH1671
La Berceuse (first version)
La Berceuse (first version), 1889. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from La Berceuse.
La Berceuse (first version) meaning and analysis
La Berceuse (first version) belongs to the site node La Berceuse. That node places the work inside Van Gogh's letters, places and changing painterly abilities rather than isolating it as a single image.
Its strongest period signal is Van Gogh Arles Period.
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The first version, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Begun in December 1888, it still lacked finished hands when Van Gogh was hospitalised; he resumed it on 21 January 1889 and completed it on the 23rd. Orange-red dots crowd the blue-green wallpaper and white flowers surround the sitter; La Berceuse is written on the red floor at lower right, and the chair arm carries no signature.