Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam

Drawbridge in Nieuw Amsterdam (F1098)

Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	1883
Type	Watercolor
Location	Groninger Museum, Groninger, Netherlands[1][nb 1]

Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam is a watercolor created in November, 1883 by Vincent van Gogh in Drente, The Netherlands.^[2]

Watercolor painting

Van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo of the view outside his room in Nieuw-Amsterdam, Drenthe: "I now have a reasonably large room where a stove has been placed, where there happens to be a small balcony. From which I can even see the heath with the huts. I also look out on a very curious drawbridge." Within the letter he drew a sketch of the bridge, which became the watercolor, Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam.^[3]

The work was one of 148 watercolors made by Van Gogh, who said of working in that medium in 1881:

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance,
so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it, as it were.^[4]

Five years after having made this work, van Gogh made Langlois Bridge at Arles in France which captures a lighter mood.^[5]

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  Langlois Bridge at Arles, watercolor, 1888, Private collection (F1480)

See also

• Early works of Vincent van Gogh
• Langlois Bridge at Arles (Van Gogh series)

Notes

References

Further reading

• John E. Sweetman. The artist and the bridge: 1700-1920. Ashgate; 1999. ISBN 978-0-7546-0013-8.

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