Qualla: Langlois Bridge at Arles https://qualla.com/langlois-bridge-at-arles en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/g/2/langlois-bridge-at-arles-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Langlois Bridge at Arles https://qualla.com/langlois-bridge-at-arles Langlois Bridge at Arles: Introduction https://qualla.com/langlois-bridge-at-arles/ Photo credit Vincent van Gogh, Public domain. In a letter to his friend Emile Bernard, Vincent van Gogh sketched a drawbridge silhouetted against a huge yellow sun and described how the town of Arles projected its strange shapes against the Provencal sky. He was thirty-five years old, living in southern France at the height of his powers, and a simple canal bridge had become an obsession. Between March and May of 1888, van Gogh produced four oil paintings, one watercolor, and four drawings of the Langlois Bridge -- a double-beam drawbridge on the Arles-to-Bouc canal that reminded him, with its machinery and its flat canal landscape, of the Netherlands he had left behind.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/g/2/langlois-bridge-at-arles-wp/spg2-langlois-bridge-at-arles-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Langlois Bridge at Arles: A Dutchman in Provence https://qualla.com/langlois-bridge-at-arles/ Photo credit Vincent van Gogh, Public domain. Van Gogh arrived in Arles seeking the bright sun and vivid colors that Paris could not provide. What he found was a countryside of canals, drawbridges, windmills, and thatched cottages that uncannily echoed the Dutch landscapes of his youth. In less than fifteen months, he would ...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/g/2/langlois-bridge-at-arles-wp/spg2-langlois-bridge-at-arles-a-dutchman-in-provence.mp3 0:06 2 full Langlois Bridge at Arles: Japan in the Midi https://qualla.com/langlois-bridge-at-arles/ Photo credit Vincent van Gogh, Public domain. The bridge reminded van Gogh of Hiroshige's woodcut print Sudden Shower on the Great Bridge, and he deliberately set out to fuse Japanese techniques with his Provencal subjects. He simplified his palette into blocks of contrasting color -- blue sky against yellow bridge, green ba...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/g/2/langlois-bridge-at-arles-wp/spg2-langlois-bridge-at-arles-japan-in-the-midi.mp3 0:06 3 full Langlois Bridge at Arles: The Perspective Frame Returns https://qualla.com/langlois-bridge-at-arles/ Photo credit Vincent van Gogh, Public domain. Van Gogh was not working from instinct alone. In Arles, he returned to a perspective frame he had built years earlier in The Hague, a viewing device used for outdoor sightings to compare the proportions of near and distant objects. Some of the Langlois Bridge works were made with...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/g/2/langlois-bridge-at-arles-wp/spg2-langlois-bridge-at-arles-the-perspective-frame-returns.mp3 0:06 4 full Langlois Bridge at Arles: The Bridge After Van Gogh https://qualla.com/langlois-bridge-at-arles/ Photo credit Vincent van Gogh, Public domain. The original Langlois Bridge was replaced by a concrete structure in 1930, which was blown up by retreating Germans in 1944 along with every other bridge on the canal except one at Fos-sur-Mer. That surviving bridge was dismantled in 1959 with the intention of reassembling it on ...

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