At Eternity's Gate

At Eternity's Gate

Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	1890
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	80 cm × 64 cm (31.5 in × 21.2 in)
Location	Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

At Eternity's Gate or On the Threshold of Eternity are lithographs by Vincent van Gogh in 1882, and a later oil painting in 1890 in Saint-Rémy de Provence after one of his lithographs.^[1] The painting was completed in early May some two months before Van Gogh shot himself.

Van Gogh wrote of his 1882 lithograph:^[1]

Today and yesterday I drew two figures of an old man with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. I did it of Schuitemaker once and always kept the drawing, because I wanted to do it better another time. Perhaps I’ll also do a lithograph of it. What a fine sight an old working man makes, in his patched bombazine suit with his bald head.

Annotated by the artist in ink at lower left: At Eternity's gate (lithograph, 1882, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art)^[2]

Sorrowful old man (lithograph, 1882, Kröller-Müller Museum)^[3]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} "To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882". Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let286/letter.html. 
2. ^ "At Eternity's Gate", vggallery.com. Last Retrieved 19 October 2011.
3. ^ "Sorrowful old man". Kröller-Müller Museum. http://www.kmm.nl/object/KM%20124.396/Sorrowful-old-man.