Park at Arles with the Entrance Seen through the Trees, The

Van Gogh's Park at Arles with the Entrance Seen Through the Trees belongs to his 1888 series of the public garden he called the poet's garden. Seeing the park entrance through a screen of trees — the gate visible but partially obscured — creates a composition of layered depth and invitation. Van Gogh was developing the poet's garden series as decorative works for his Yellow House, and this view through trees to the entrance has a welcoming quality appropriate to that intention. The work is currently unlocated or in private hands.

The composition creates depth through the layering of tree trunks and foliage in the foreground against the glimpsed park entrance beyond. Van Gogh's Arles palette makes the foliage vivid and the entrance setting warm and inviting. His characteristic brushwork animates the foliage while the entrance is handled with more architectural precision.