Stooks and a Mill
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nuenen, August 1885
chalk on paper, 44.3 cm x 56.3 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
In early 1885, Vincent had hardly any time for Theo, who had planned to visit him in Nuenen (NL). He wrote: 'I’m rather busy, since they’re harvesting the wheat in the fields and, as you know, this takes only a few days and is certainly almost the most beautiful of all.' So he invited his brother to come and see him while he was at work in his studio.
This drawing shows sheaves of grain drying after the harvest. Van Gogh used milk as a fixative for the chalk drawing, so that the chalk would not come off. Then he used a rubber to make some parts lighter.
- F-number
- F1319v
- JH-number
- JH0911
- Object number
- d0173V1962v
- Dimensions
- 44.3 cm x 56.3 cm
- Provenance
- With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after September 1885; 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)
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