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The Ravine of the Peyroulets is an 1889 painting by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. It is part of a large series of paintings created during a time of extraordinary creative activity for the artist in the last year of the his life, after he had commmitted himself to the Saint-Paul Asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

The Ravine of the Peyroulets
Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	1889
Medium	Oil on canvas
Location	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Van Gogh's contemporary, Paul Gauguin, admired this picture and wrote to him saying of it: "In subjects from nature you are the only one who thinks. I talked about it with your brother, and there is one that I would like to trade with you for one of mine of your choice. The one I am talking about is a mountain landscape. Two travelers, very small, seem to be climbing there in search of the unknown…Here and there, red touches like lights, the whole in a violet tone. It is beautiful and grandiose."[1]

Later another Van Gogh painting, Wild Vegatation, was discovered underneath as it had been painted over by the Dutchman. The work is now in the permanent collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.[2][3]

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