The artwork, titled “Orchard and House with Orange Roof,” is a creation by Vincent van Gogh, completed in 1888 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. This piece, executed in ink on paper, belongs to the Post-Impressionism art movement and falls under the genre of sketch and study. It is currently housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The artwork depicts an impressionistic sketch of an orchard alongside a house with an orange roof. The house is situated with a backdrop of trees, and there are annotations in the artwork, highlighting various elements such as green trees (“arbres verts”) and the orange roof (“toit orange”). The sketch is quite simplistic, using minimal lines to convey the essence of an orchard scene. There are visible lines suggesting rows of plants or crops, and the loosely drawn tree forms occupy the foreground, presenting a typical pastoral view that van Gogh often explored. The entire sketch is framed by a border, with additional French text written above and to the sides, giving the viewer insight into the artist’s method and thought process.
