ID: 700000338 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000338	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Corridor in the Asylum (painting (visual work); Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890); September 1889; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 48.190.2)

Note: This haunting view of a sharply receding corridor is the artist's most powerful depiction of the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in St. Rémy, where he spent twelve months near the end of his life and where he painted the Museum's oils of olive groves, cypresses, roses, and irises ("Women Picking Olives" (1995.535.44); "Olive Orchard" (1998.325.1); "Cypresses" (49.30); "Wheat Field with Cypresses" (1993.132); "Irises" (58.187); "Vase of Roses" (1993.400.5)). The buildings (largely remains of a twelfth-century monastery) were divided into men's and women's wards, but most of the small cells looking out on the neglected garden were empty when Van Gogh was there. One of the rooms he was able to use as a studio. The artist sent this unusually large and colorful drawing to his brother Theo, to give a picture of his surroundings.

Titles:

Corridor in the Asylum (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: September 1889

Creator Display:

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) [preferred,VP]

artist Gogh, Vincent van (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1853-1890) [500115588]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 48.190.2

Credit Line: Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1948

Display Materials: Oil color and essence over black chalk on pink laid ("Ingres") paper

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	black chalk [300080058]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, chalk)

	laid paper [300014184]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by production method>)

Dimensions: 65.1 x 49.1 cm (25-5/8 x 19-5/16 in.)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Impressionist (style) [300021503] (N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>, <modern European fine arts styles and movements>)

	Post-Impressionist [300021508] (N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>, <modern European fine arts styles and movements>)

General Subject:

interior architecture (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	asylum (welfare building) [300006752]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, institutional buildings, health and welfare buildings, welfare buildings) (AAT)

	Saint-Rémy [7009654]
	.....(Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

Provenance: Theo van Gogh (Dutch, died 1891); Vincent Willem van Gogh(the artist's nephew); Leicester Galleries, London, 1927; Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller (American), New York 1929; Mrs. J. D. Rockefeller (American); Donor: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Watermarks: Marking: [watermark]: AL [in banderole] BAS

Inscriptions: Inscription: [recto in graphite, lower right]: 14; [verso in pen and ink]: no. 14; [verso inscribed in graphite]: Hospice a St Remy

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Corridor in the Asylum	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 7 May 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)