Two worn work shoes are placed on the tiled floor of the Yellow House; Van Gogh treats their folds, laces and soles like the features of a faceless portrait.
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Shoes, F461Vincent van Gogh · August 1888 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
August 1888Dating
45.7 × 55.2 cmDimensions of the original
Oil on canvasOriginal technique
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A pair of shoes in the Yellow House
Both shoes are seen from above. The one on the left opens backwards, while the one on the right has its wide tip and raised tongue. The untied laces cross the composition in flexible lines.
The pink, beige and gray tiles are painted in large oblique rectangles. A shadow of small blue hatching extends behind the right shoe and anchors the pair to the floor.
The Metropolitan Museum locates this still life in Arles and recognizes in the background the tiled floor of the Yellow House. The shoes were sometimes compared to the peasant Patience Staircase, painted by Van Gogh during the same summer, but their owner remains uncertain.
Composition, touch and color
Three observations specific to this painting
The current Met notice gives 45.7 × 55.2 cm and the 1992.374 inventory; F461/JH1569 distinguishes this Arlesian pair from shoes painted in Paris.
01
A portrait by usury
Folds, stitching, warped leather and thick soles suggest a long history of use without showing who wore them.
02
A look from above
The high point of view brings the shoes closer to the viewer and transforms the tiles into an almost abstract background.
03
Colorful browns
Ocher, olive, red, blue and black build leather. Shoes are never reduced to a uniform brown.
Documented benchmarks
Precisely identify the original work
Van Gogh had already painted several pairs of shoes in Paris; this work is his singular return to the motif during the Arles period.
Location
The tiles of the Yellow House
The Met brings the painted floor here closer to that visible in other views of the house occupied by Van Gogh in Arles.
Owner
A cautious attribution
The shoes may have belonged to Patience Escalier or Van Gogh himself; no identification is certain.
Collection
Number 1992.374
The Metropolitan Museum purchased the work in 1992 with a donation from the Annenberg Foundation.
The copy must regain the heaviness of the soles, the free laces, the folds of the leather and the temperature differences between the tiles.
The dark tongue of the right shoe
The laces untied in the center
Thick and worn soles
Pink and beige tiles
Blue shadow in fine hatching
Work sheet
Title
Shoes, F461
Artist
Vincent van Gogh (1853 -1890)
Date
August 1888
Place of creation
Arles
Original technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
45.7 × 55.2 cm
Inventory
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1992.374 · F461 · JH1569
Conservation
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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In your interior
A sober and very expressive still life
The horizontal format is suitable for an office, entrance or workshop. Earth brown, beige, gray pink and slate blue match leather, black metal and raw wood.
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