The Rock of Montmajour with Pine Trees
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, July 1888
pencil, pen, reed pen and brush and ink, on paper, 49.1 cm x 61 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh drew this jagged rock with pine trees using a reed pen – a drawing tool that lent itself to supple and vigorous lines. He developed his own drawing style with it, consisting of stipples and stripes in all sizes, thicknesses and directions.
Van Gogh made this drawing on the hill of Montmajour, near Arles. His fascination with the landscape around the hill inspired a series of pen drawings, which form a high point in his oeuvre. He accepted the fierce mistral wind and the many mosquitoes as the price he had to pay. 'If a view makes one forget those little vexations, there must be something in it,' he wrote to his brother Theo.
- F-number
- F1447
- JH-number
- JH1503
- Object number
- d0344V1962
- Dimensions
- 49.1 cm x 61 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Arles to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, 13 July 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; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh on 10 July 1962 to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam; 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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