# Old Farmhouses in Auvers [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOGH, Vincent van]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm ## Commentary Old Farmhouses in Auvers May 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note02.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue numbers:</a> F 750, JH 1984. In this painting the cottages are crowded up close, as if in need of protection. The painter is keeping his distance, as if he did not wish to intrude too much upon the idyll. The rhetoric of the treatment is as subdued and tranquil as the scene itself. The painter's mood was calmer than in Saint-Rémy. ## Related artworks - [A Cottage on the Heath and "The Protestant Barn"]() - [A Lane in the Public Garden at Arles]() - [A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul]() - [A Pair of Leather Clogs]() - [A Pair of Shoes]() - [A Pair of Shoes]() - [A Workman's Meal-Break]() - [Agostina Segatori in the Café du Tambourin]() - [Almond Tree in Blossom]() - [Apricot Trees in Blossom]() - [At Eternity's Gate \("Worn Out"\)]() - [Avenue of Plane Trees near Arles Station]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()