{"id":1837,"date":"2017-03-15T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T03:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/small-vase.flywheelsites.com\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2017-04-24T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:32:37","slug":"the-langlois-bridge-series-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.vangoghgallery.com\/index.php\/en\/2017\/03\/15\/the-langlois-bridge-series-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Langlois Bridge Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

During his stay in Arles, Vincent did a study on the Langlois bridge. \u00a0Unfortunately, it is no longer in its original spot, as it was replaced by another bridge and then later replicated. \u00a0In homage to Van Gogh, the replication was renamed Pont van Gogh. \u00a0It\u2019s fitting given that the bridge inspired Vincent van Gogh to paint four oil paintings, four drawings, and four watercolors. \u00a0Van Gogh completed this study in 1888.<\/p>\n

While this study will be referred to here as \u201cLanglois Bridge with Washer Women, etc,\u201d it also goes by \u201cDrawbridge with Washer Women\u201d as well as a variety of similar names. \u00a0The title seems to depend on \u00a0the whims of the translator. \u00a0Oddly enough, Van Gogh himself mistook the bridge\u2019s name, having misheard it as \u201cPont de l\u2019Anglais\u201d (The English Bridge). \u00a0What drew Van Gogh to the bridge was its resemblance to the ones in the Netherlands. \u00a0This was not a mistake or a trick of the eye; a Dutchman had been the engineer who designed the bridge. \u00a0So for Van Gogh it was a little bit of home in France.<\/p>\n

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The Langlois Bridge with Washerwomen – Original<\/a> and Copy for Theo van Gogh<\/a><\/p>\n

The Langlois Bridge with Washerwomen <\/i>is two out of the four oil paintings. \u00a0The first Van Gogh sent to his former supervisor, Herman Tersteeg, at the Goupil & Cie art dealership so that he would have an example of his work. \u00a0Van Gogh completed the original around March 16th; he mentioned it in a letter to his younger brother Theo. \u00a0He later made a copy that he sent to him.<\/p>\n

The painting follows his typical style. \u00a0It is a slice of life, where his focus is not on capturing merely the people at work but on the scene as a whole. \u00a0All the women are focused on their task, wholly separate from the carriage driving over the bridge. \u00a0Two separate instances combined into a full picture of daily life. \u00a0His color choice denotes a bright, sunny day. \u00a0One that is middle of the summer hot. \u00a0The stones of the bridge appear warmed by the sun in yellow and grey brushstrokes. \u00a0The grass appears dry, yellowed from the sun, and even the dirt is a red-brown that appears burnt from its rays.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Langlois Bridge at Arles – May, 1888<\/a><\/div>\n

Van Gogh completed this painting some time in May of 1888. \u00a0He mentions starting it in a letter to Theo<\/a> dated around May 14th, 1888.\u00a0 It\u2019s a small aside of little note. \u00a0What is significant is how he describes the colors of Arles comparing to those of the Netherlands in the following sentence. \u00a0As he puts it, \u201cThere\u2019s sulfur everywhere where the sun beats down.\u201d \u00a0For the previous two paintings, yellow tones were prevalent. \u00a0It was sulphurous. \u00a0In contrast, the painting above is cooler, easier. \u00a0Yellow is still worked into the painting; the stones on the bridge are yellower than the last two. \u00a0It\u2019s in the ripples of the water; it trails down from the path on the far bank. \u00a0Yet here yellow is less heated. \u00a0The bright blue of the sky dominates the picture but does not overwhelm the rest of the scene. \u00a0The sun shines, demonstrated by the woman walking with a parasol, but the blue of the sky tempers its heat. \u00a0This painting has little \u201caction;\u201d its focus is on the bridge and its surroundings rather than the person in it. \u00a0She merely part of the background.<\/p>\n

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\nLanglois Bridge at Arles – March, 1888<\/a><\/div>\n

As with the first two, this painting was done some time in March 1888. \u00a0An unusual point about this painting is that it is a reworking of another piece that Van Gogh had made that \u00a0has since been destroyed. \u00a0The other piece had the same view, only with a couple walking in it. \u00a0He sent a description of it to friend and fellow artist Emile Bernard in a letter<\/a>. \u00a0Only a fragment of the walking couple painting remains today. \u00a0In a letter to Theo<\/a>, Van Gogh mentioned trouble that he is having with the walking couple painting and added that he started this painting immediately after, but \u201cas the weather was quite different, in a grey palette and without figures.\u201d\u00a0 Van Gogh followed in the tradition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionists artists, in that if the scenery around the subject changed, so too did the work. \u00a0His art is a response to his surroundings and how he viewed them. \u00a0In this case, the colors are muted, lacking the vibrancy of the other three paintings. \u00a0It\u2019s emptier. \u00a0While not lifeless, as there are people milling about the bridge and the grass along the road is greener than the other paintings, the greyer tones used here do give it less energy. \u00a0The lethargy brought by stormy weather sucked all vigor out of the scene and left it a shadow of itself.<\/p>\n

This series provides an exceptional example of how Vincent van Gogh looked at the same subject and saw it differently each time. \u00a0It encapsulates brief moments to show how each scene, while having similar subjects, is a separate and equally valuable moment to preserve. \u00a0Individually , the moments are strong, but when they are placed together they form a better understanding of subject as a whole.<\/p>\n

Letters referenced:<\/p>\n

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  1. http:\/\/vangoghletters.org\/vg\/letters\/let610\/letter.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. http:\/\/vangoghletters.org\/vg\/letters\/let587\/letter.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. http:\/\/vangoghletters.org\/vg\/letters\/let589\/letter.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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