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Shoes

1888
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 822
Van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes or boots during his Paris period. This picture, painted later, in Arles, evinces a unique return to the earlier motif. However, here Van Gogh has placed the shoes within a specific spatial context: namely, the red-tile floor of the Yellow House. Not only may we identify the setting, but perhaps the owner of the shoes as well. It has been suggested that this "still life of old peasants' shoes" may have been those of Patience Escalier, whose portrait Van Gogh executed around the same time, late summer 1888.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Shoes
  • Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)
  • Date: 1888
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 18 × 21 3/4 in. (45.7 × 55.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1992
  • Object Number: 1992.374
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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