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On one of the paintings[0] you can see electricity poles that look fairly modern. I didn't realise that was already the case back then! [0]: https://www.vangog
by ponyous 3y ago
On one of the paintings[0] you can see electricity poles that look fairly modern. I didn't realise that was already the case back then!
[0]: https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/d0420V1962 https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/d0420V1962
- FartyMcFarter 3y agoThey look more like telephone poles, and if my google-fu is serving me, it's unlikely that large scale power distribution was around in Paris in 1887: https://histoire.bnpparibas/en/the-compagnie-parisienne-de-distribution-delectricite-1914-1946/ https://histoire.bnpparibas/en/the-compagnie-parisienne-de-d...
- WastingMyTime89 3y ago1887 is in the beginning of France electrification it could indeed be electricity poles (mostly haphazard efforts in France from 1880 to 1890-ish but it’s the entrance of Paris so not an unlikely candidate). Alternatively that could also be part of the telegraphs system which was fairly widespread at the time (the painting is of one of Paris gates).
- leobg 3y agoThere was a woman on television in the 1990s who actually met Van Gogh back when she was a kid. I was surprised to hear that, just as you are surprised to see telephone poles in his pictures.