Gagane 'Terril'

A recent enquiry undertaken by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam revealed that a watercolour painted by Van Gogh in 1879 depicts the coke ovens of the Flénu Colliery Products Company. It was indeed the site of the former Sainte Félicité coal mine, at a place known as "Gagane." The viewer's perspective is from the north, looking south.