Prawns and Mussels
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, September-November 1886
oil on canvas, 26.5 cm x 34.8 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh always managed to find new subjects for his still lifes. Here he used shellfish. After painting them, he probably had them for supper that same day.
His friend and fellow painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) saw this small painting. Years later, he mentioned it when writing about his memories of Van Gogh. Gauguin said that Van Gogh had sold the painting to a dealer for five francs and given away the money immediately afterwards to a poor young woman in the street.
- F-number
- F0256
- JH-number
- JH1169
- Object number
- s0122V1962
- Dimensions
- 26.5 cm x 34.8 cm, 36.9 cm x 45.4 cm, 6.5 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between September and November 1886; 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 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, from 1927 to 1930; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, 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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