Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre

Museum record 27954: Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre by Vincent van Gogh. A verified entry point for discovery.

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This painting dates from the winter of 1887, roughly a year after Vincent van Gogh arrived in Paris to join his brother, the art dealer Theo van Gogh. It is one of a group of landscapes featuring the Butte Montmartre, a short climb from the apartment on the rue Lepic where Vincent and Theo lived. Montmartre was dotted with reminders of its quickly receding rural past—abandoned quarries, kitchen gardens, and three surviving windmills, including the Moulin de Blute-Fin. The nonfunctional mill had become a…