Self-Portrait

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, March-June 1886

oil on canvas, 27.2 cm x 19.0 cm

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

Van Gogh painted this small self-portrait in a single session. He had just moved to Paris at the time.

He was still painting in the sombre colours he had used in the Netherlands. He would soon abandon them, after seeing the work of the Impressionists. But in fact this painting was originally rather brighter: some of the pigments have faded over time.

F-number
F0208
JH-number
JH1195
Object number
s0159V1962
Dimensions
27.2 cm x 19.0 cm, 36 cm x 28 cm
Provenance
Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between March and June 1886; 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)

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