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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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