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| Keywords: Vincent van Gogh - Oleander.jpg oil canvas cm 60 3 73 7 Metropolitan Museum of Art object history credit line Gift of Mr and Mrs John L Loeb 1962 <small> For Van Gogh oleanders were joyous life-affirming flowers that bloomed riotously and were continually renewing themselves 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/Collections/search-the-collections/110000972 Metropolitan Museum of Art</ref> reflist </small> accession number 62 24 http //www metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/110000972 metmuseum org PD-old-100 Still Life Vase with Oleanders and Books | ||||
