The Sower
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, August 1888
pencil, pen and reed pen and ink, on paper, 24.4 cm x 32 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh based this drawing on one of his own paintings: The Sower, which is now on display in the Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, NL). All in all, he made more than 30 drawings and paintings on this theme. The sower symbolised the eternal cycle of existence. Sowing brings forth new life.
For this drawing, Van Gogh worked with pens of different thicknesses. He used thick lines for the ploughed earth in the foreground and a thin, delicate pen for the sun.
- F-number
- F1441
- JH-number
- JH1543
- Object number
- d0348V1962
- Dimensions
- 24.4 cm x 32 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Arles to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, 8 August 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; 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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