What collection of paintings by Van Gogh included his painting Irises, which was one of several painting of irises?
Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (Van Gogh series) Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy is a collection of paintings that Vincent van Gogh did when he was a self-admitted patient at the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, since renamed the "Clinique Van Gogh", from May 1889 until May 1890. During much of his stay there he was confined to the grounds of the asylum, and he made paintings of the garden, the enclosed wheat field that he could see outside his room and a few portraits of individuals at the asylum.
Arnoldus Andries des Tombe Arnoldus Andries des Tombe (6 February 1816, Vught - 16 December 1902, 's-Gravenhage) was a Dutch army officer, genealogist and art collector, notable for his purchase of the Vermeer painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" - on the advice of Victor de Stuers, who for years tried to prevent Vermeer's rare works from being sold to parties abroad, des Tombe purchased the work at an auction in The Hague in 1881, for only two guilders and thirty cents. He had no heirs and donated this and other paintings to the Mauritshuis in 1902.