Arena in Arles

Les Arènes d'Arles

Arena in Arles

Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Hermitage Museum

Saint Petersburg, Russia

About this painting

Van Gogh barely rendered the ancient Roman arena itself, focusing instead on the packed, multicolored crowd watching a bullfight — he called it 'a great multicoloured crowd, piled up.'

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

73 × 92 cm (28.7 × 36.2 in)

Painted at

Arles, France

Current location

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

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