 Cottages with Thatched Roofs, 1890
| On 21 May
of that year, the date of his arrival in Auvers, Vincent wrote to his brother that the
place was “very beautiful; among other things there are a lot of old thatched roofs,
which are getting rare”; he added that he hoped to do ‘some canvases of
his… for really it is profoundly beautiful”. Vincent walked all over the
area around Auvers looking for subjects, Before the end of the second day spent on the
banks of the Oise, he had already painted “one study of the old thatched roofs with a
field of peas in flower in the foreground and some wheat, with a background of
hills”. |
  |
