Thresher (after Millet)

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

oil on canvas, 42 cm x 28 cm

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

While at the clinic in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh produced many paintings based on works by other painters. The model for this picture of The Thresher was a wood engraving based on a painting by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875).

He wrote to his brother Theo that he was learning a lot from all this copying. ‘What’s more, it will give me a studio decoration for myself or another’.

F-number
F0692
JH-number
JH1784
Object number
s0171V1962
Dimensions
42 cm x 28 cm, 58.3 cm x 42.1 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 1927 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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