Vincent in Paris
(Summer 1887)

Rarely of late has the stillness, nature alone, so appealed to me. Sometimes it’s precisely those spots where one no longer feels anything of what’s known as the civilized world and has definitely left all that behind — sometimes it’s precisely those spots that one needs to achieve calm. Only I would have wished to have you there too, because I think you would have gained the same impression…
 From a letter to his brother Theo.

Trees and Undergrowth
Summer 1887
Oil on canvas
46,2 x 55,2
Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum