Barn Owl Viewed from the Front

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, April-September 1887

pencil, pen and ink, on paper, 35.3 cm x 26.2 cm

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

F-number
F1373v
JH-number
JH1189
Object number
d0152V1962v
Dimensions
35.3 cm x 26.2 cm
Provenance
Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between April and September 1887; 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)

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Vincent van Gogh. Die Pariser Zeichnungen, 22 March-16 June 2002

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Tentoonstelling van teekeningen door Vincent van Gogh in het Stedelijk Museum, 22 December 1914-19 January 1915, no. 137

Hoek, Jack van, De Eindhovense kennissen van Vincent van Gogh : de drukker, de lithograaf, de fotograaf en de schilder, 2016, p. 45

Hoek, Jack van, Nuenen of Parijs : de lokalisatie en datering van twee schilderijen van Van Gogh herzien : deel 2: Vincents kennissenkring te Eindhoven : opgezette uil en zwaluw wellicht ook in Nuenen gemaakt, p. 21-25

Uitert, Evert van, Hoyle, Michael, Crimpen, Han van, The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1987, p. 446

Knuttel, G., Vincent van Gogh, 1960, p. 32

Heugten, Sjraar van, Vellekoop, Marije, Zwikker, Roelie, Hageman, Monique, Vincent van Gogh drawings : volume 3 : Antwerp & Paris 1885-1888 : Van Gogh Museum, 2001, p. 267-274

Heugten, Sjraar van, Vellekoop, Marije, Zwikker, Roelie, Hageman, Monique, Vincent van Gogh tekeningen : Antwerpen & Parijs 1885-1888 : Van Gogh Museum : 3, 2001, p. 267-274

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