The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy) — About This Work
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
About the Work
Large plane-tree trunks dominate a road where small figures work among heaps of material. Van Gogh lets their scale and the autumn foliage shape the scene, bringing the everyday repair work into a strongly patterned landscape.
He painted the subject while living near Saint-Rémy in 1889. The museum connects the canvas with a letter to Theo describing road menders, enormous trunks and glimpses of buildings, tying the painted setting to the artist's own account.
The museum also distinguishes this canvas from a repetition in Washington, identifying the Cleveland painting as the earlier version on conservation evidence. The work's identity is thus specific, rather than interchangeable with another rendering of the same composition.
The Work
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Title: The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy)
Date: 1889
Medium: Oil on fabric
Recorded dimensions: 91.8 × 73.4 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1947.209
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 75 × 100 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Gift of the Hanna Fund. 1947.209.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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