Old Woman with a Shawl and a Walking Stick

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), The Hague, March 1882

pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, on paper, 57.4 cm x 32.0 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Van Gogh signed this drawing; he was evidently proud of it. In The Hague, he sometimes went out with the painter Breitner (1857-1923). In March 1882 he wrote to Theo about this drawing, 'Yesterday evening I went out with him to look for figure types in the street in order to study them later in the studio with a model. In that way I drew an old woman I’d seen in the Geest district where the madhouse is.'

F-number
F0913
JH-number
JH0109
Object number
d0174V1967
Dimensions
57.4 cm x 32.0 cm
Provenance
Sold by Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Rotterdam to D.A. Daamen, Rotterdam, 1904; after his death on 4 November 1941 inherited by his widow L. Daamen-Drost, The Hague; given on loan to the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, since 1941; given on loan to the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, 1954-1966; after her death on 24 April 1960 inherited by her son D.A. Daamen Jr, Sumner (New Zealand) and her daughter E.C. Daamen, The Hague; after the death of D.A. Daamen Jr, October 1966, sold by D.K. Daamen-Richardson and E.C. Daamen to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, October 1967; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Vincent van Gogh
Credits (obliged to state)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh aan het werk, 1 May 2013-13 January 2014

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Vincent van Gogh tekeningen. Vroege jaren 1880-1883, 10 May-15 September 1996, no. 23

Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Vincent van Gogh. Tekeningen, 30 March-29 July 1990, no. 16

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Zonder titel [Presentatie in het museum], 20 December 1983-February 1984

Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Vincent van Gogh exhibition, 24 February-14 March 1977, no. 4

Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto), Vincent van Gogh exhibition, 6 January-20 February 1977, no. 4

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo), Vincent van Gogh exhibition, 30 October-19 December 1976, no. 4

Oslo, Munch Museet, Vincent van Gogh, 5 April-15 June 1976, no. 4

Stockholm, Kulturhuset, Vincent van Gogh, 10 February-28 March 1976, no. 4

Malmö, Malmö Konsthall, Vincent van Gogh. 100 teckningar och akvareller. 100 drawings and water colours, 6 June-10 August 1975, no. 4

London, Hayward Gallery, Vincent van Gogh. Paintings and Drawings of the Vincent van Gogh Foundation Amsterdam, 23 October 1968-12 January 1969, no. 6

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Tentoonstelling van teekeningen door Vincent van Gogh in het Stedelijk Museum, 22 December 1914-19 January 1915, no. 38

Rotterdam, Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Tentoonstelling van werken door Vincent van Gogh, 10 November-18 December 1904, no. 59

Standring, Timothy, Tilborgh, Louis van, Kelly, Simon, Kendall, Richard, Meedendorp, Teio, Coon, A.R., Becoming van Gogh, 2012, p. 93, 114, 119, 121

Vanbeselaere, Walther, Vermeylen, August, De hollandsche periode (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), 1937, p. 79, 137, 408

Uitert, Evert van, Hoyle, Michael, Crimpen, Han van, The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1987, p. 388

Meijer, E.R., Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, een nieuwe aanwinst en een nieuwe publikatie, p. 216-219

Vellekoop, Marije, Bakker, Nienke, Dijk, Maite van, Hendriks, Ella, Van Gogh aan het werk, 2013, p. 48

Vellekoop, Marije, Bakker, Nienke, Dijk, Maite van, Geldof, Muriel, Hendriks, Ella, Reissland, Birgit, Van Gogh at work, 2019, p. 48

Dumas, Charles, Mast, M. van der, Van Gogh en Den Haag, cop. 1990, p. 48, 123

Heugten, Sjraar van, Vellekoop, Marije, Zwikker, Roelie, Van Gogh tekenaar : de meesterwerken, 2016, p. 30, 185

Heenk, Liesbeth, Vincent van Gogh's drawings : an analysis of their production and uses, 1995], p. 52

Pey, E.B.F., Pickvance, Ronald, Wolk, J. van der, Vincent van Gogh : tekeningen, 1990, p. 72

Heugten, Sjraar van, Vincent van Gogh drawings : volume 1 : the early years 1880-1883 : Van Gogh Museum, 1996, p. 102-104

Heugten, Sjraar van, Vincent van Gogh tekeningen : vroege jaren 1880-1883 : Van Gogh Museum : I, 1996, p. 102-104

Hofstra, Feikje Wimmie, De Haagse streken van Vincent van Gogh 30-03-1953 - 29-07-1890, 2019, p. 46-47

Hofstra, Feikje Wimmie, Experience Vincent van Gogh in The Hague 30-03-1853 - 29-07-1890, 2019, p. 46-47

Search in the collection