Rain (Van Gogh)

Rain (French: La Pluie;[1] F650, H565, JH1839[2]) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh, created in 1889, while he was a voluntary patient at an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

He repeatedly painted the view through the window of his room, depicting the colours and shades of the fields and hills around Saint-Rémy as they appeared at various times of day and in varying weather conditions.

[3][4] Van Gogh was a voluntary patient from May 1889 to May 1890 in the hospital at the Asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, a former monastery at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

[2] Rain was painted on an untreated cotton canvas in November 1889,[10] or during heavy rainfall on 31 October 1889.

[14] He bequeathed his art collection to the museum, in memory of his mother, Frances Plumer McIlhenny.