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| Keywords: VanGogh-VaseLauriersroses.jpg Artwork Vincent Van Gogh fr Vincent Van Gogh Vase avec lauriers roses août 1888 exemplaire de La Joie de vivre d'Émile Zola posé sur la table en Oleanders by Vincent van Gogh For Van Gogh oleanders were joyous life-affirming flowers that bloomed inexhaustibly and were always putting out strong new shoots In this painting of August 1888 the flowers fill a majolica jug that the artist used for other still lifes made in Arles They are symbolically juxtaposed with Émile Zola's La Joie de vivre a novel that Van Gogh had placed in contrast to an open Bible in a Nuenen still life of 1885<ref>http //www metmuseum org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436530 rpp 30 pg 2 rndkey 20160212 ft deptids 11 pos 49</ref> 1888 oil canvas cm 60 3 73 7 institution Metropolitan Museum of Art accession number 62 24 object history credit line Gift of Mr and Mrs John L Loeb 1962 exhibition history http //images metmuseum org/CRDImages/ep/original/DT1494 jpg public domain PD-old-70-1923 Émile Zola Nerium oleander Van Gogh 1888-1889 Arles Majolica | ||||
