Looking at the Wind: Paintings of the Mistral in Fin-de-Siècle France

Among the thousands of paintings that Impressionists and Post-Impressionists created in southern France, several focus specifically on the subject of the Mistral. Here, Dunlop explores three of these paintings: Claude Monet's Cap d'Antibes, Mistral (1888), Paul Gauguin's Les Arlésiennes (Le Mistral) (1888), and Vincent van Gogh's Cypresses with Two Figures (1889). While the three paintings are quite different from one another in their style and subject matter, they all express the same paradox that characterized European interactions with the wind during the late 19th century.