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''The Yellow House'' ((オランダ語:Het gele huis)), alternatively named ''The Street'' ((オランダ語:De straat)),〔(The Yellow House ('The Street') ), Van Gogh Museum. Retrieved on 21 February 2015.〕〔 (Het gele huis ('De straat') ), Van Gogh Museum. Retrieved on 21 February 2015.〕 is an 1888 oil painting by the 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. This title refers to the right wing of the building, 2, Place Lamartine, Arles, France, the house where, on May 1, 1888, Vincent van Gogh rented four rooms, two large ones on the ground floor to serve as atelier and kitchen, and, on the first floor, two smaller ones facing Place Lamartine. The window on the first floor near the corner with both shutters open is that of Van Gogh's guest room, where Paul Gauguin lived for nine weeks from late October, 1888. Behind the next window, with one shutter closed, is Van Gogh's Bedroom. The two small rooms at the rear were rented by Van Gogh at a later time. The left wing housed a grocery (French: ''Comestibles'', inscribed on the signboard over the marque). The building suffered various rebuilding, before it was severely damaged in a bombing raid by the Allies on June 25, 1944 〔A photographic document of the damaged house survived (Van Gogh Museum, Archief M. E. Tralbaut), stamped "Photo E. Barral" and annotated by the author "''La Maison de Van Gogh après le Bombardement du 25 Juin 1944''"; it is reproduced in Wilkie, ''In Search of Van Gogh,'' page 92〕 and was later demolished. Van Gogh indicated that the restaurant, where he used to have his meals, was in the building painted pink close to the left edge of the painting (28, Place Lamartine). It was run by Widow Venissac, who was also Van Gogh's landlady, and who owned several of the other buildings depicted. To the right side of the Yellow House, the Avenue Montmajour runs down to the two railway bridges.〔Avenue Montmajour is now Avenue de Stalingrad.〕 The first line, with a train just passing, served the local connection to Lunel, which is on the opposite (that is, right) bank of river Rhône. The other line was owned by the P.-L.-M. Railway Company (''Paris Lyon Méditerranée'')〔''The Railway Bridge'', another painting by Van Gogh, supplies a view from this bridge back to Place Lamartine, the square in which the house was located.〕 In the foreground to the left, there is an indication of the corner of the pedestrian walk, which surrounded one of the public gardens on Place Lamartine. The ditch running up Avenue Montmajour from the left towards the bridges served the gas pipe, which allowed Van Gogh a little later to have gas light installed in his atelier.〔Letters ( B22 ) and (556 )〕 ==Genesis== The painting was executed in September 1888, at which time Van Gogh sent a sketch of the composition to his brother Theo:.〔(Letter 543 )〕 Initially, Van Gogh titled the painting as ''The House and its environment'' (French: ''La Maison et son entourage''). Later he opted for a more meaningful title and called it ''The Street'' (French: ''La Rue''),〔Letter ( 543 ), Letter ( B18 )〕 paying ''homage'' to a suite of sketches showing streets in Paris, by Jean-François Raffaëlli, and recently published in ''Le Figaro''.〔''La Rue, par Jean-François Raffaëlli'', ''Le Figaro'', supplément litteraire, Paris, March 3, 1888〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Yellow House (painting)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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