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Prisoners' Round

Oil on canvas · 80 × 64 cm

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Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

About the painting

Prisoners' Round (after Gustave Doré), also known as The Prisoners' Round, or Prisoners Exercising, or Penitentiary (after Doré), (F669) is an oil painting of February 1890 by Vincent van Gogh.

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This late work was painted at Saint-Paul Asylum in Saint-Rémy, inspired by an 1872 engraving by Gustave Doré of the exercise yard (le bagne) at Newgate Prison published in the book London: A Pilgrimage.

The original oil painting is held by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

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