Portrait of a Young Woman
Armand Guillaumin (1841 - 1927), 1886
oil on canvas, 65 cm x 54 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh had only been living in Paris for a few months when he visited the final Impressionist exhibition. It featured no less than 21 paintings and pastels by Guillaumin, an artist of the first generation of Impressionists. Vincent and his brother Theo managed to acquire Portrait of a Young Woman for their shared collection.
Theo appreciated Guillaumin’s bold use of colour and thick, expressive brushstrokes. The artist applied striking accents of pink, green, yellow, blue, purple, and red to the face, for example. Vincent admired Guillaumin’s portraits primarily for their sincerity, recognising their emotional depth – something he himself sought to achieve as an artist.
- Object number
- s0227V1962
- Dimensions
- 65 cm x 54 cm, 85.5 cm x 74.3 cm, 9 cm
- Provenance
- Acquired by Theo van Gogh, Paris, between 15 June 1886 and 19 February 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; donated by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Laren, 11 March 1952; transferred by the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation to the Theo van Gogh Foundation, Laren, 28 December 1960; donated by the Theo van Gogh Foundation to the (2nd) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, 21 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
- Armand Guillaumin
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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