Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre  1887

by Vincent van Gogh

This painting dates from the winter of 1887, roughly a year after Vincent van Gogh arrived in Paris to join his brother, the art dealer Theo van Gogh. It is one of a group of landscapes featuring the Butte Montmartre, a short climb from the apartment on the rue Lepic where Vincent and Theo lived. Montmartre was dotted with reminders of its quickly receding rural past—aband...
Size: 
17 1/8 × 13 in. (43.6 × 33 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas, mounted on pressboard
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago