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Catalogue numbers: F 704, JH 1981.
Depictions of couples were present in van Gogh's visual world as metaphor of that happy family life that was denied him in reality. At the end of his Saint-Rémy period, van Gogh evolved what was in a sense the definitive solution of the problem in Landscape with Couple Walking and Crescent Moon. The couple are seen walking amidst cypresses and olives in a moonlit idyll, the hills behind them. In this Provençal landscape van Gogh's vision appears in all its wistful harmony. The man and woman belong together. They are going the same way, talking, gesturing. And they belong together because the colour scheme links them, too.
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