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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of art works by Vincent van Gogh in the world. The permanent collection includes more than 200 paintings by Vincent van Gogh, 500 drawings and more than 800 letters. The museum also presents exhibitions on various subjects from 19th-century art history.

13/10/2026

Case File 1/3 🔍 Our investigation got off to a rocky start.

Van Gogh left us a witness statement. The problem? It didn’t match the evidence. The colours he described are not the colours we see today.
So, what do we trust?


ASML works with the Van Gogh Museum to preserve Van Gogh's heritage through technology.

12/10/2026

For Vincent, the night was never simply black. 🌙
He explored it in various settings: a blue star-filled sky in ‘Terrace of a Café at Night’, or the yellow-green glow of gas lamps in ‘The Night Café’. Whether outside or indoors, he found the night to be full of colour.

‘There’s a lot to draw here’, Vincent wrote a day after arriving in Auvers-sur-Oise. 📝 He immediately liked the rural vi...
11/10/2026

‘There’s a lot to draw here’, Vincent wrote a day after arriving in Auvers-sur-Oise. 📝 He immediately liked the rural village.
Vincent asked his brother Theo to send him twenty sheets of paper: ‘I would need these anyway so as not to waste any time’. In the meantime, he started work on this painting ‘Landscape with Houses' on paper. Van Gogh began by making a sketch, which he then filled in with watercolour and diluted oil paint. He added the light and dark areas to create a sense of depth.

Fun detail 🕵️‍♀️ Van Gogh did not follow the underdrawing precisely, so parts of it are still visible. (2+3)

🖼️ ‘Landscape with Houses’, 1890 © Van Gogh Museum

10/10/2026

Sharing these words by Van Gogh as a thought to pause on today 💛


📹 inspiration from @ collette_walters_author on TikTok

What if we told you this patch of grass is hiding a woman?For more than a century, nobody knew that there was another pa...
09/10/2026

What if we told you this patch of grass is hiding a woman?

For more than a century, nobody knew that there was another painting hiding beneath ‘Patch of Grass’. It wasn't until researchers examined the work with X-rays that the hidden portrait of a woman emerged.

Vincent occasionally reused canvases, painting over earlier work. In this case, one small painting preserves two very different moments in his artistic journey.
The hidden image offers a rare glimpse of his transition from the dark tones of his Dutch period to the brighter palette he developed in Paris.

1 ‘Patch of Grass’, 1887 © Kröller-Müller Museum
2 Image credit TU Delft

Why did Vincent paint so many olive groves? 🌿Because to him, they were an endless source of inspiration.No two days ever...
08/10/2026

Why did Vincent paint so many olive groves? 🌿

Because to him, they were an endless source of inspiration.
No two days ever looked the same. The changing light and the colours of the sky transformed the olive trees from one moment to the next. The same grove could become an entirely new painting.

Vincent wrote to his brother Theo: ‘The olive tree is variable’, and later to critic and artist Joseph Isaäcson: ‘The effect of daylight, of the sky, means that there is an infinity of subjects to be drawn from the olive tree.’

🖼️ ‘Olive Grove with Two Olive Pickers’, 1889 © Kröller-Müller Museum

When Van Gogh returned to his studio after some time away, he discovered that his painting ‘The Bedroom’ had suffered wa...
07/10/2026

When Van Gogh returned to his studio after some time away, he discovered that his painting ‘The Bedroom’ had suffered water damage. The paint had started to flake.

To protect the fragile surface, he wrapped the painting in newspaper before sending it to his brother Theo. Years later, conservators made a remarkable discovery under the microscope: tiny traces of that newspaper had become embedded in the paint.

As a compassionate man, Van Gogh was inspired by modern writers like Zola and the Goncourts, whose ideas on society and ...
06/10/2026

As a compassionate man, Van Gogh was inspired by modern writers like Zola and the Goncourts, whose ideas on society and human nature shaped his view of the world. He shifted from religious readings to their modern books, but his feelings of sympathy and compassion for people who had less, remained unchanged. He tried to express those feelings in his art.

🖼️ ‘Oleanders’, 1888 © Metropolitan Museum of Art

What do this painting and a tablecloth have in common? Well…When Vincent ran out of canvas in the autumn of 1889, he did...
05/10/2026

What do this painting and a tablecloth have in common? Well…

When Vincent ran out of canvas in the autumn of 1889, he didn't stop painting. While waiting for new supplies from his brother Theo, he picked up a woven tablecloth and got back to work.

When you get very close to the painting you can still spot traces of the tablecloth's small red checked weave beneath the paint. (2-4)

🖼️ ‘Wheat Fields in a Mountainous Landscape’, 1889 © Kröller-Müller Museum

No challenge was too big for Van Gogh! 💪 Painting glass is tricky as it is… but Vincent went a step further. In ‘Carafe ...
04/10/2026

No challenge was too big for Van Gogh! 💪 Painting glass is tricky as it is… but Vincent went a step further. In ‘Carafe and Dish with Citrus Fruit’ (1887), he set a transparent carafe against patterned wallpaper – forcing himself to capture all the colourful reflections dancing through the glass. (2)

🖼️ © Van Gogh Museum

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