Street in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
ca. July 15, 1888
Medium
Reed pen, quill, and brown ink over black chalk on wove paper (backed with wove paper)
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 9/16 x 12 1/2 in. (24.3 x 31.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1948
Accession Number
48.190.1
Tags
About the Artist
Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) stands as one of the most influential figures in Western art history, despite a career spanning merely a decade. Born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, to a Protestant pastor's family, van Gogh's path to artistic greatness was anything but conventional. His early adulthood saw him working as an art dealer for Goupil & Cie, a language teacher, and a fervent missiona...