Old Woman with a Shawl and a Walking Stick
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), The Hague, March 1882
pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, on paper, 57.4 cm x 32.0 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh signed this drawing; he was evidently proud of it. In The Hague, he sometimes went out with the painter Breitner (1857-1923). In March 1882 he wrote to Theo about this drawing, 'Yesterday evening I went out with him to look for figure types in the street in order to study them later in the studio with a model. In that way I drew an old woman I’d seen in the Geest district where the madhouse is.'
- F-number
- F0913
- JH-number
- JH0109
- Object number
- d0174V1967
- Dimensions
- 57.4 cm x 32.0 cm
- Provenance
- Sold by Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Rotterdam to D.A. Daamen, Rotterdam, 1904; after his death on 4 November 1941 inherited by his widow L. Daamen-Drost, The Hague; given on loan to the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, since 1941; given on loan to the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, 1954-1966; after her death on 24 April 1960 inherited by her son D.A. Daamen Jr, Sumner (New Zealand) and her daughter E.C. Daamen, The Hague; after the death of D.A. Daamen Jr, October 1966, sold by D.K. Daamen-Richardson and E.C. Daamen to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, October 1967; 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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