Landscape in Drenthe

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Drenthe, September-October 1883

pencil, pen and brush and ink, watercolour, on paper, 31.4 cm x 42.1 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the Rembrandt Association)

The first thing that strikes you about this landscape is the low light of the setting sun. Van Gogh achieved this effect through the use of white paint, while he drew the rest of the picture in pencil and brown ink. The dark figures on the dimly lit field stand out sharply against the brightly illuminated horizon.

Van Gogh had gone to spend a couple of months in Drenthe in the autumn of 1883. Fellow-artists had told him about the beauty of the landscape. And although he sometimes felt that the heathland was ‘as irritatingly tedious and fatiguing as the desert’ in the clear light of day, in the low evening light he found it ‘sublime’.

F-number
F1104
JH-number
JH0424
Object number
d0810M1986
Dimensions
31.4 cm x 42.1 cm
Provenance
Probably left by the artist with his mother, A.C. van Gogh-Carbentus, Nuenen/Breda, sometime between November 1885 and February 1886; given in safekeeping to Janus Schrauwen, Breda, April 1888; left with Janus Schrauwen by A.C. van Gogh-Carbentus after her move to Leiden, 1889; sold by Janus Schrauwen to Jan C. Couvreur, 14 August 1902; sold by Jan C. Couvreur to Kees Mouwen Jr and Willem van Bakel, Breda, 1902-03; given on consignment by Kees Mouwen Jr and Willem van Bakel to Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Rotterdam; 3 May 1904 sale Amsterdam, Frederik Muller (Vincent van Gogh. Tableaux, aquarelles, dessins), lot 34 (Lever de soleil dans la plaine), bought by Kunsthandel Buffa, Amsterdam for NLG 62; sold by Kunsthandel Buffa to H. Gorter, Bussum, before August 1905; Kunstzaal d'Audretsch, The Hague, after October 1913; G.H.E. van Suchtelen, The Hague, before 1922; after his death on 29 July 1922 inherited by his sister A.J.L. Einthoven-van Suchtelen, The Hague; Kunsthandel Huinck & Scherjon, Amsterdam by 1953; W. Weinberg, Scarsdale, by 1955; after his death on 13 February 1957, sale 10 July 1957 London, Sotheby's (The highly important collection [...]. The property of the late Wilhelm Weinberg of Scarsdale, New York), lot 54 (Le lever du soleil), bought by P.J. Goldberg, London for GBP 3.200; after his death in 1969 with his widow A.E. Goldberg-Bertish, London; after her death in 1986, sale 2 December 1986 London, Christie's (Impressionist and modern British paintings, drawings and sculpture. The property of the late Mrs. A.E. Goldberg), lot 127 (Le lever du soleil), bought by the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam for GBP 75.000, at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Vincent van Gogh
Credits (obliged to state)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the Rembrandt Association)

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