Head of a Woman
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nuenen, December 1884-May 1885
chalk on paper, 40.2 cm x 33.3 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh painted many peasants, often picking the most striking ones as models. He valued their 'primitive', unrefined country life and gave them sharp faces that tell of hard work and poverty.
In the winter of 1884-1885, Van Gogh made a large series of drawings and paintings in Nuenen (NL): studies of heads. This portrait of a local farm worker with fairly coarse features was an ambitious drawing. It is twice the size of the other drawings in the series.
- F-number
- F1182
- JH-number
- JH0590
- Object number
- d0362V1962
- Dimensions
- 40.2 cm x 33.3 cm
- Provenance
- With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after May 1885; 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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