![Claude Monet - Tulip Fields near The Hague [1886]](http://c6.staticflickr.com/6/5515/30542225413_4ae140f7cd_b.jpg)
Monet spent ten days in the Netherlands in 1886. He was captivated by the Dutch landscape, with its windmills and bulb-fields, and produced five paintings of them. This example was sold the same year by the art dealer Theo van Gogh, so it is quite possible that his brother Vincent saw the work. Monet painted the sea of flowers in every possible colour, while the sky, the windmills and the buildings on the horizon are rendered in muted blue, grey and purple tones, with the occasional pink accent.
[Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - Oil on canvas, 66 cm x 81.5 cm]