Houses in Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, May-June 1888

pencil, reed pen and brush and ink, on paper, 30.2 cm x 47.4 cm

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

Van Gogh took a trip from Arles (FR), where he lived, to the coast. There he spent a few days in the picturesque village of Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, drawing subjects that included these fishermen's huts. They reminded him of houses 'like those on our Drenthe heaths and peat bogs'. The one in the middle has a cross on it. That was a common sight on houses in this region, the Camargue.

Van Gogh felt that this drawing was 'a bit harsh' in its execution. He later used it as the basis for a painting, which is now in the Kunsthaus Zürich.

F-number
F1438
JH-number
JH1448
Object number
d0161V1962
Dimensions
30.2 cm x 47.4 cm
Provenance
Probably sent by the artist from Arles to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, June 1888; 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 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931; 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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