A yellow corner house with green shutters and doors stands in hard sunlight under a deep blue sky, beside a building with a pink awning on the left and a taller cream building behind. A man and a woman walk past on the pale street, a lamppost and a long heap of sand sit in the foreground, and at the right a train crosses a bridge trailing white smoke while small figures stroll along the avenue. Vincent van Gogh painted his own house on the Place Lamartine in Arles in September 1888. In May he had rented four rooms there, and the green shutters show where he lived; he called the picture The Street.

The Van Gogh Museum notes that it maps his daily life: he often ate at the restaurant on the left, and his friend the postman Joseph Roulin lived just beyond the second railway bridge. Van Gogh meant the house to become a studio for artists, but Paul Gauguin, who arrived in late October 1888, was the first and, as it turned out, the last to move in. The house no longer exists: on June 25, 1944, during an Allied campaign against the Rhône bridges, a bomb landed on it and leveled the area. It is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.