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.

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

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

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

Faille 1529; Hulsker 1808; Pickvance 1986, no. 6

Exhibition catalogue. 1929, cat. no. 97.

Vincent van Gogh Exhibition. 1926, cat. no. 2102.

Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1958.

Exhibition catalogue. 1955, cat. no. 2, 53.

Tentoonstelling Vincent van Gogh. 1905, cat. no. 363.

Modern Works of Art. 1934, cat. no. 18, ill.

Montross Gallery, New York Vincent Van Gogh. 1920, cat. no. 7.

Teekeningen door Vincent van Gogh: uit de verzameling van mevrouw J. van Gogh-Bonger en den heer V. W. van Gogh. 1914, cat. no. 156.

Vincent van Gogh. New York, 1935, cat. no. 120, ill.

"Painting and Sculpture in MoMA" in Bulletin. 2-3 (Supplement), 17, New York, 1950, fig. no. p. 2, p. 827, ill.

Van Gogh. 1951, cat. no. 19.

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Masters of Modern Art. New York, 1954, p. 27 (color ill, ill.

John Rewald Post-Impressionism: from van Gogh to Gauguin. 1st; subsequent editions in 1962, 1978. New York, 1956, p. 325 (color il, ill.

J. B. De La Faille The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings. New York, 1970.. Rev. ed of 1928 catalogue raisonné. New York, 1970, cat. no. 1529, ill.

The Symbolist Aesthetic. New York, 1980-81, cat. no. 23.

Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers. New York, 1986, cat. no. 6, fig. no. color ill. p. 91, pp. 88-93, ill.

Christopher Finch Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York, London, Paris, 1991, fig. no. 362, pp. 274, 276, ill.

Jan Hulsker The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent Van Gogh. revised ed. of 1980 catalogue raisonné. Amsterdam, 1996, cat. no. 1808, p. 416, ill.

Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten, Marije Vellekoop, Marjorie Shelley, Silvia A. Centeno Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005, 353-54,358-59, illus. p. 323, cat. no. 113, fig. no. 264,268, 53,280,296, 322, ill.

Van Gogh: Heartfelt Lines. Cologne, 2008, cat. no. 122, pp. 394-398, ill.