Weaver, with a Baby in a High Chair
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nuenen, January 1884
pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, on paper, 31.5 cm x 39.9 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh’s parents lived in the Brabant village of Nuenen, which was the workplace of many weavers. Van Gogh had been keen to draw and paint them for quite some time. He felt the subject was a gap in the market, since it had received almost no attention from other artists.
There was little room to draw inside the cramped weavers’ cottages. Even so, Van Gogh often made sketches. One eyewitness reported that he sometimes had to sit in the passageway to do so. Finished drawings like this were made later, in his studio.
- F-number
- F1118
- JH-number
- JH0452
- Object number
- d0082V1962
- Dimensions
- 31.5 cm x 39.9 cm
- Provenance
- Probably sent by the artist from Nuenen to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, c. 23 February 1884; 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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