The Woodcutter (after Millet)

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, September 1889

oil on canvas, 44 cm x 26.2 cm

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

Within a short period in September 1889, Van Gogh produced paintings based on ten prints. They included this woodcutter. The prints were a series of small wood engravings, themselves based on ten paintings by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875).

Van Gogh copied the images as accurately as he could, given the small size of the engravings. He didn’t regard the resulting paintings as mere copies. He saw them as free polychrome ‘interpretations’ of monochrome prints by another artist. Just as a musician might make a new arrangement of a piece by another composer.

F-number
F0670
JH-number
JH1886
Object number
s0170V1962
Dimensions
44 cm x 26.2 cm, 58.2 cm x 39.6 cm
Provenance
Probably sent by the artist from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, at the end of April 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; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, from 1930 to 1937; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, on 10 July 1962 to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam; 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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