Many consider Van Gogh's Arles period to be the most creative of his career. Indeed, many of Van Gogh's best known works were produced during his time in this provençal town. In a way, the paintings executed in Arles reflect a synthesis of the two previous artistic periods of Van Gogh's development. In Nuenen, Van Gogh would emerge as a skilled painter with a passion for painting outdoors. In Paris, Van Gogh would refine his evolving talents to incorporate a new world of colour and style introduced by the Impressionists. In Arles, these two would merge and some of Van Gogh's best-loved works (Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers or Harvest at La Crau, for example) would result.
Note: The paintings are sorted by month and then alphabetically within each month. More accurate dating is generally too difficult. As a rule, however, the JH (Jan Hulsker) numbers do follow a more precise chronological sequence.
Painting Name |
Date of Origin |
Current Location |
F |
JH |
| Landscape with Snow | February, 1888 | New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Justin K. Thannhauser Collection | 290 | 1360 |
| Old Woman of Arles, An | February, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 390 | 1357 |
| Pork-Butcher's Shop Seen from a Window, A | February, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 389 | 1359 |
| Snowy Landscape with Arles in the Background | February, 1888 | London, private collection | 391 | 1358 |
| Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass | Early March, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 392 | 1361 |
| Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book | Early March, 1888 | Japan, private collection | 393 | 1362 |
| Avenue of Plane Trees near Arles Station | March, 1888 | Paris, Musée Rodin | 398 | 1366 |
| Gleize Bridge over the Vigueirat Canal, The | March, 1888 | Hakone, Pola Museum of Art | 396 | 1367 |
| Langlois Bridge at Arles with Road Alongside the Canal, The | March, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 400 | 1371 |
| Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing, The | March, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 397 | 1368 |
| Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees | March, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 555 | 1380 |
| Pair of Leather Clogs, A | March, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 607 | 1364 |
| Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve) | March, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 394 | 1379 |
| Still Life with Basket and Six Oranges | March, 1888 | Private collection | 395 | 1363 |
| Still Life: Potatoes in a Yellow Dish | March, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 386 | 1365 |
| Two Lovers (Fragment) | March, 1888 | Private collection | 544 | 1369 |
| Orchard in Blossom | March-April, 1888 | New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 552 | 1381 |
| Almond Tree in Blossom | April, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 557 | 1397 |
| Apricot Trees in Blossom | April, 1888 | Private collection | 399 | 1398 |
| Apricot Trees in Blossom | April, 1888 | Private collection | 556 | 1383 |
| Blossoming Pear Tree | April, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 405 | 1394 |
| Langlois Bridge at Arles, The | April, 1888 | Paris, Private collection | 571 | 1392 |
| Orchard in Blossom | April, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 511 | 1386 |
| Orchard in Blossom | April, 1888 | Switzerland, private collection | 406 | 1399 |
| Orchard in Blossom (Plum Trees) | April, 1888 | Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland | 553 | 1387 |
| Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses | April, 1888 | New Haven (Conn.), Yale University Art Gallery | 554 | 1388 |
| Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses | April, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 513 | 1389 |
| Orchard with Peach Trees in Blossom | April, 1888 | Private collection | 551 | 1396 |
| Path Through a Field with Willows | April, 1888 | Switzerland, private collection | 407 | 1402 |
| White Orchard, The | April, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 403 | 1378 |
| Peach Tree in Blossom | April-May, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 404 | 1391 |
| Farmhouse in a Wheat Field | May, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 408 | 1417 |
| Farmhouses in a Wheat Field Near Arles | May, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 576 | 1423 |
| Landscape Under a Stormy Sky | May, 1888 | Private collection | 575 | 1422 |
| Lane near Arles, A | May, 1888 | Greifswald, Pommersches Landesmuseum | 567 | 1419 |
| Langlois Bridge at Arles, The | May, 1888 | Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum | 570 | 1421 |
| Still Life: Blue Enamel Coffeepot, Earthenware and Fruit | May, 1888 | Athens, Basil and Elise Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art | 410 | 1426 |
| Still Life: Bottle, Lemons and Oranges | May, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 384 | 1425 |
| Still Life: Bowl with Daisies | May, 1888 | Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | 591 | 1429 |
| Still Life: Majolica Jug with Wildflowers | May, 1888 | Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation | 600 | 1424 |
| View of Arles with Irises in the Foreground | May, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 409 | 1416 |
| Seascape at Saintes-Maries | Early June, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 415 | 1452 |
| Street in Saintes-Maries | Early June, 1888 | Private collection | 420 | 1462 |
| Three White Cottages in Saintes-Maries | Early June, 1888 | Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich | 419 | 1465 |
| Arles: View from the Wheat Fields | June, 1888 | Paris, Musée Rodin | 545 | 1477 |
| Bridge at Trinquetaille, The | June, 1888 | Private collection | 426 | 1468 |
| Canal with Women Washing | June, 1888 | Washington, D.C., Collection Joseph Albritton | 427 | 1490 |
| Farmhouse in Provence | June, 1888 | Washington, National Gallery of Art, Alisa Mellon Bruce Collection | 565 | 1443 |
| Girl with Ruffled Hair ("The Mudlark") | June, 1888 | La-Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), Musée des Beaux-Arts | 535 | 1467 |
| Green Ears of Wheat | June, 1888 | Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Gift of the Hanadiv Foundation | 562 | 1483 |
| Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background | June, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 412 | 1440 |
| Harvest in Provence | June, 1888 | Jerusalem, The Israel Museum | 558 | 1481 |
| Haystacks in Provence | June, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 425 | 1442 |
| Seascape at Saintes-Maries | June, 1888 | Moscow, Pushkin Museum | 417 | 1453 |
| Seated Zouave, The | June, 1888 | Argentina, private collection | 424 | 1488 |
| Sower, The | June, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 422 | 1470 |
| Sunset: Wheat Fields Near Arles | June, 1888 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur | 465 | 1473 |
| View of Saintes-Maries | June, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 416 | 1447 |
| Wheat Field | June, 1888 | Amsterdam, P. and N. de Boer Foundation | 564 | 1475 |
| Wheat Field with Sheaves | June, 1888 | Honolulu, Honolulu Museum of Art | 561 | 1480 |
| Wheat Field with the Alpilles Foothills in the Background | June, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 411 | 1476 |
| Wheat Fields with Stacks | June, 1888 | Private collection | n/a | 1478 |
| Zouave (Half Length), The | June, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 423 | 1486 |
| Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries | Late June, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 413 | 1460 |
| Sunset at Montmajour | Summer, 1888 | Private collection | None | None |
| Rocks with Oak Tree | Early July, 1888 | Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts | 466 | 1489 |
| Flowering Garden with Path | July, 1888 | The Hague, Kunstmuseum Den Haag (on loan) | 429 | 1513 |
| Flowering Garden | July, 1888 | New York, private collection | 430 | 1510 |
| La Mousmé, Sitting | July, 1888 | Washington, National Gallery of Art | 431 | 1519 |
| Painter on His Way to Work, The | July, 1888 | Destroyed by fire in the Second World War; formerly in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Magdeburg (Germany) | 448 | 1491 |
| Sunny Lawn in a Public Park | July, 1888 | Zurich, Collection Merzbacher (on permanent loan to the Kunsthaus Zurich) | 428 | 1499 |
| Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin | Early August, 1888 | Boston, Museum of Fine Arts | 432 | 1522 |
| Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin | Early August, 1888 | Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts (partial and promised gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Ford II) | 433 | 1524 |
| Coal Barges | August, 1888 | Annapolis (Md.), Collection Carleton Mitchell | 437 | 1570 |
| Coal Barges | August, 1888 | Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza | 438 | 1571 |
| Encampment of Gypsies with Caravans | August, 1888 | Paris, Musée d'Orsay | 445 | 1554 |
| Garden Behind a House | August, 1888 | Private collection | 578 | 1538 |
| Pair of Shoes, A | August, 1888 | New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 461 | 1569 |
| Portrait of Patience Escalier | August, 1888 | Collection Niarchos | 444 | 1563 |
| Portrait of Patience Escalier, Shepherd in Provence | August, 1888 | Pasadena (Cal.), Norton Simon Museum of Art | 443 | 1548 |
| Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges | August, 1888 | Essen, Museum Folkwang | 449 | 1558 |
| Railway Carriages | August, 1888 | Avignon (France), Fondation Angladon-Dubrujeaud | 446 | 1553 |
| Self-Portrait with Pipe and Straw Hat | August, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 524 | 1565 |
| Still Life: Vase with Five Sunflowers | August, 1888 | Destroyed by fire in the Second World War | 459 | 1560 |
| Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers | August, 1888 | London, National Gallery | 454 | 1562 |
| Still Life: Vase with Oleanders | August, 1888 | Location unknown; possibly stolen in 1944 | 594 | 1567 |
| Still Life: Vase with Oleanders and Books | August, 1888 | New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 593 | 1566 |
| Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers | August, 1888 | Munich, Neue Pinakothek | 456 | 1561 |
| Still Life: Vase with Zinnias | August, 1888 | Private collection | 592 | 1568 |
| Thistles | August, 1888 | Collection Niarchos | 447 | 1550 |
| Three Sunflowers in a Vase | August, 1888 | United States, private collection | 453 | 1559 |
| Two Thistles | August, 1888 | Private collection | 447a | 1551 |
| Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, The | September, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 467 | 1580 |
| Entrance to the Public Park in Arles | September, 1888 | Washington, The Phillips Collection | 566 | 1585 |
| Green Vineyard, The | September, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 475 | 1595 |
| Lane in the Public Garden at Arles, A | September, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 470 | 1582 |
| Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles, The | September, 1888 | New Haven (Conn.), Yale University Art Gallery | 463 | 1575 |
| Old Mill, The | September, 1888 | Buffalo (N.Y.), Albright-Knox Art Gallery | 550 | 1577 |
| Ploughed Field | September, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 574 | 1586 |
| Portrait of Eugene Boch | September, 1888 | Paris, Musée d'Orsay | 462 | 1574 |
| Poet's Garden, The | September, 1888 | Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago | 468 | 1578 |
| Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) | September, 1888 | Cambridge (Mass.), Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University | 476 | 1581 |
| Sower: Outskirts of Arles in the Background, The | September, 1888 | Los Angeles, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art | 575a | 1596 |
| Starry Night Over the Rhone | September, 1888 | Paris, Musée d'Orsay | 474 | 1592 |
| Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House) | September, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 464 | 1589 |
| Portrait of Milliet, Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves | Late September, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 473 | 1588 |
| Willows at Sunset | Autumn, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 572 | 1597 |
| Brothel, The | October, 1888 | Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation | 478 | 1599 |
| Lovers: The Poet's Garden IV, The | October, 1888 | Location unknown (declared to be "degenerate" by the Nazis and confiscated in 1937) | 485 | 1615 |
| Park at Arles with the Entrance Seen through the Trees, The | October, 1888 | Destroyed by fire in the Second World War | 471 | 1613 |
| Portrait of the Artist's Mother | October, 1888 | Pasadena (Cal.), Norton Simon Museum of Art | 477 | 1600 |
| Public Garden with Couple and Blue Fir Tree: The Poet's Garden III | October, 1888 | Private collection | 479 | 1601 |
| Public Park at Arles, The | October, 1888 | Private collection | 472 | 1598 |
| Railway Bridge over Avenue Montmajour, Arles, The | October, 1888 | Private collection | 480 | 1603 |
| Sower, The | October, 1888 | Winterthur, Villa Flora | 494 | 1617 |
| Still Life: French Novels | October, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 358 | 1612 |
| Tarascon Diligence | October, 1888 | Princeton, The Art Museum | 478a | 1605 |
| Trinquetaille Bridge, The | October, 1888 | Private collection | 481 | 1604 |
| Vincent's Bedroom in Arles | October, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 482 | 1608 |
| Les Alyscamps | Late October, 1888 | Athens, Basil and Elise Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art | 568 | 1622 |
| Trunk of an Old Yew Tree | Late October, 1888 | London, Helly Nahmad Gallery | 573 | 1618 |
| L'Arlesienne: Madame Ginoux with Gloves and Umbrella | Early November, 1888 | Paris, Musée d'Orsay | 489 | 1625 |
| L'Arlesienne: Madame Ginoux with Books | November, 1888 (or May, 1889?) | New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 488 | 1624 |
| Les Alyscamps | November, 1888 | Collection Niarchos | 487 | 1621 |
| Les Alyscamps | November, 1888 | Private collection | 569 | 1623 |
| Les Alyscamps: Falling Autumn Leaves | November, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 486 | 1620 |
| Memory of the Garden at Etten | November, 1888 | St. Petersburg, Hermitage | 496 | 1630 |
| Red Vineyard, The | November, 1888 | Moscow, Pushkin Museum | 495 | 1626 |
| Sower, The | November, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 451 | 1629 |
| Sower, The | November, 1888 | Zurich, Foundation E.G. Bührle | 450 | 1627 |
| Mother Roulin with Her Baby | November-December, 1888 | Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art | 490 | 1637 |
| Mother Roulin with Her Baby | November-December, 1888 | New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 491 | 1638 |
| Portrait of Armand Roulin | November-December, 1888 | Essen, Museum Folkwang | 492 | 1642 |
| Portrait of Armand Roulin | November-December, 1888 | Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen | 493 | 1643 |
| Portrait of Camille Roulin | November-December, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 538 | 1645 |
| Portrait of Camille Roulin | November-December, 1888 | Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mrs. Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, from the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg | 537 | 1644 |
| Portrait of Madame Augustine Roulin | November-December, 1888 | Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Römerholz' | 503 | 1646 |
| Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin | November-December, 1888 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur | 434 | 1647 |
| Self-Portrait | November-December, 1888 | Private collection | 501 | 1634 |
| Paul Gauguin (Man in a Red Beret) | c. 1 December 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 546 | None |
| Schoolboy (Camille Roulin), The | Early December, 1888 | Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo | 665 | 1879 |
| Baby Marcelle Roulin, The | December, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 441 | 1641 |
| Baby Marcelle Roulin, The | December, 1888 | Private collection | 441a | 1640 |
| Baby Marcelle Roulin, The | December, 1888 | Washington, National Gallery of Art | 440 | 1639 |
| Dance Hall in Arles, The | December, 1888 | Paris, Musée d'Orsay | 547 | 1652 |
| La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin) | December, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 504 | 1655 |
| Novel Reader, The | c. 16 November 1888 | Private collection | 497 | 1632 |
| Paul Gauguin's Armchair | December, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 499 | 1636 |
| Portrait of a Man | December, 1888 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 533 | 1649 |
| Portrait of a One-Eyed Man | December, 1888 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 532 | 1650 |
| Smoker, The | December, 1888 | Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation | 534 | 1651 |
| Spectators in the Arena at Arles | December, 1888 | St. Petersburg, Hermitage | 548 | 1653 |
| Vincent's Chair with His Pipe | December, 1888 | London, National Gallery | 498 | 1635 |
| Young Man with a Cap | December, 1888 | Private collection | 536 | 1648 |
| Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La Berceuse) | January, 1889 | Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago | 506 | 1670 |
| La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin) | January, 1889 | New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 505 | 1669 |
| Portrait of Doctor Felix Rey | January, 1889 | Moscow, Pushkin Museum | 500 | 1659 |
| Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear | January, 1889 | London, Courtauld Institute Galleries | 527 | 1657 |
| Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe | January, 1889 | Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich (on semi-permanent loan) | 529 | 1658 |
| Still Life with Oranges, Lemons and Blue Gloves | January, 1889 | Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art | 502 | 1664 |
| Still Life: Bloaters on a Piece of Yellow Paper | January, 1889 | Private collection | 510 | 1661 |
| Still Life: Drawing Board, Pipe, Onions and Sealing-Wax | January, 1889 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 604 | 1656 |
| Still Life: Two Red Herrings | January, 1889 | France, Collection Francis Junker | 283a | 1660 |
| Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers | January, 1889 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 458 | 1667 |
| Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers | January, 1889 | Tokyo, Sompo Japan Museum of Art | 457 | 1666 |
| Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers | January, 1889 | Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art | 455 | 1668 |
| Two Crabs | January, 1889 | London: National Gallery (on loan) | 606 | 1662 |
| La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin) | February, 1889 | Boston, Museum of Fine Arts | 508 | 1671 |
| La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin) | March, 1889 | Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum | 507 | 1672 |
| Two White Butterflies | Spring, 1889 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 402 | 1677 |
| Clumps of Grass | April, 1889 | Hakone, Pola Museum of Art | 582 | 1678 |
| Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles, The | April, 1889 | Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Römerholz' | 519 | 1687 |
| Field of Yellow Flowers, A | April, 1889 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur | 584 | 1680 |
| Grass and Butterflies | April, 1889 | France, private collection | 460 | 1676 |
| La Crau with Peach Trees in Blossom | April, 1889 | London, Courtauld Institute Galleries | 514 | 1681 |
| Orchard in Blossom with View of Arles | April, 1889 | Munich, Neue Pinakothek | 516 | 1685 |
| Pollard Willows | April, 1889 | Collection Niarchos | 520 | 1690 |
| Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin | April, 1889 | Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation | 435 | 1674 |
| Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin | April, 1889 | New York, The Museum of Modern Art | 436 | 1675 |
| Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin | April, 1889 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum | 439 | 1673 |
| Red Chestnuts in the Public Park at Arles | April, 1889 | Private collection | 517 | 1689 |
| Rosebush in Blossom | April, 1889 | Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art | 580 | 1679 |
| View of Arles with Trees in Blossom | April, 1889 | Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum | 515 | 1683 |
| Ward in the Hospital in Arles | April, 1889 | Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Römerholz' | 646 | 1686 |
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