Daubigny's Garden

Daubigny's Garden, painted three times by Vincent van Gogh, depicts the garden of the late Charles-François Daubigny, a painter whom Van Gogh admired throughout his life. Van Gogh started with a small study of a section of the garden. Then he worked on two double-square paintings of the full enclosed garden. The paintings were made in Auvers between May 1890 and July 1890, during the last few months of his life. All three paintings are titled Daubigny's Garden and are distinguished by the museums they reside in: Kunstmuseum Basel, Hiroshima Museum of Art and Van Gogh Museum. Charles-François Daubigny was a French artist who had been trained by his father. Van Gogh greatly admired Daubigny, a landscape artist associated with the Barbizon...