Sunny Lawn in a Public Park

Catalogue numbers: F 428, JH 1499.

This painting depict a corner of the park in the neighbourhood of the artist's house, the Yellow House, in Arles. There were three parks around of which van Gogh made several sketches, however, he only started painting the subject in July 1888.

Unlike other paintings depicting gardens, van Gogh here chose an unusual composition: he looked at the sloping meadow from a rather low standpoint, thus the horizon is almost outside the view. A few weeks later van Gogh painted the same corner of the park again (F 468), this time from the front.