Portrait of Elisabeth Huberta Vrijdag, Grandmother of Vincent and Theo van Gogh

onbekend/unknown, c. 1820-1891

oil on panel, 19.8 cm x 16.9 cm

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

Object number
s0261V1962
Dimensions
19.8 cm x 16.9 cm, 30.5 cm x 27.4 cm
Provenance
Vincent van Gogh (1789-1874) and Elisabeth Huberta Vrijdag (1790-1857), possibly before 1857; probably Theo van Gogh, Paris; after his death on 25 January 1891, probably 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; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
onbekend/unknown
Credits (obliged to state)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Collectie Theo van Gogh, February 1960

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, De verzameling van Theo van Gogh. Met uitzondering van de werken van zijn broer Vincent, 31 March-11 May 1953

Uitert, Evert van, Hoyle, Michael, Crimpen, Han van, The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1987, p. 306

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