Landscape with Peasant Women Harvesting

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Auvers-sur-Oise, July 1890

crayon on paper, 23.8 cm x 31.2 cm

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

Van Gogh settled down next to a field with his sketchbook and black chalk. He studied the toiling peasant women carefully. He gives clear indications of the differences in their clothing, sometimes using just dots or stripes, sometimes adding blue chalk.

On the roof of the farmstead he has written ‘rouge’ (red). Usually when he made notes of this kind, it was because he intended to use the drawing as the basis for a painting. He probably didn’t get round to it; at any rate, no similar landscape in oils is now known to us.

F-number
F1615v
JH-number
JH2085
Object number
d0210V1962v
Dimensions
23.8 cm x 31.2 cm
Provenance
With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after July 1890; 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; 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, Hermitage Amsterdam, Vincent. Het Van Gogh Museum in de Hermitage Amsterdam, 29 September 2012-25 April 2013

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Wolfsburg, Stadthalle Wolfsburg, Vincent van Gogh. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 18 February-2 April 1967, no. 128

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh. Werken uit de verzameling van Ir. V.W. van Gogh, in bruikleen afgestaan aan de Gemeente Amsterdam, 2 May 1931-1931, no. 229

Uitert, Evert van, Hoyle, Michael, Crimpen, Han van, The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1987, p. 478

Heugten, Sjraar van, Vellekoop, Marije, Zwikker, Roelie, Van Gogh tekenaar : de meesterwerken, 2016, p. 176-177, 191

Jansen, Leo, Suijver, Renske, Blokland, Ann, Vincent, 2012, p. 89-95

Vellekoop, Marije, Zwikker, Roelie, Hageman, Monique, Vincent van Gogh drawings : Arles, Saint-Rémy & Auvers-sur-Oise 1888-1890 : Van Gogh Museum : 4, 2007, p. 511-514

Vellekoop, Marije, Zwikker, Roelie, Hageman, Monique, Vincent van Gogh tekeningen : Arles, Saint-Rémy & Auvers-sur-Oise 1888-1890 : Van Gogh Museum : 4, 2007, p. 511-514

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