A Woman Washing Herself
Emile Bernard (1868 - 1941), 1888
reed pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 31.1 cm x 20.5 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
- Object number
- d0639V1962
- Dimensions
- 31.1 cm x 20.5 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Saint-Briac to Vincent van Gogh, Arles; received by him on 29 July 1888; sent by Vincent van Gogh to his brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris, 29 July 1888; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Vincent van Gogh foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Emile Bernard
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
New Brunswick, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Emile Bernard (1868-1941). The Theme of Bordellos and Prostitutes in Turn-of-the-Century French Art, 3 April-31 May 1988, no. 9
Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Les amis de Van Gogh, 9 November-17 December 1960
Uitert, Evert van, Hoyle, Michael, Crimpen, Han van, The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1987, p. 371
Vollard, Ambroise, Bernard, Emile, Lettres de Vincent van Gogh à Emile Bernard, 1911, pp. 99, 106
Roskill, Mark W., Van Gogh, Gauguin and French painting of the 1880s : a catalogue raisonné of key works, 1970, pp. 219-220
Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila, Emile Bernard (1868-1941) : the theme of bordellos and prostitutes in turn-of-the-century French art, 1988, pp. 13-15, note 20 on p. 22, 33
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Jansen, Leo, Luijten, Hans, Bakker, Nienke, Vincent van Gogh - The Letters : The complete illustrated and annotated edition : Volume 4 : Arles, 1888-1889, 2009, pp. 196-197, 200, 202