Seated Zouave
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, June 1888
pencil, reed pen and ink, watercolour, on paper, 49.3 cm x 61.2 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
In June 1888, Van Gogh had a stroke of luck. He finally found someone who was willing to sit for a portrait. It was an infantryman from the elite corps known as the Zouaves. This is one of the drawings that he made of him.
Van Gogh had difficulty with parts of the drawing: the cap, for example, appears to be sliding off the soldier's head. And the eyes and nose did not turn out well. Is that because it had been a while since he'd drawn a living model? Or was it because he hadn't used a reed pen for a long time?
- F-number
- F1443
- JH-number
- JH1485
- Object number
- d0752M1979
- Dimensions
- 49.3 cm x 61.2 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Arles to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, 23 June 1888; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; sold by Jo van Gogh-Bonger to Kunsthandel Artz & De Bois, The Hague, for NLG 1.000, 14 September 1912; sold by Kunsthandel Artz & De Bois to Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, for NLG 1.500, September 1912; Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin, after 1919; sold by Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer through Galerie Mathiessen, Berlin to De Hauke & Co., New York, for DEM 10.500, March 1929; sold by De Hauke & Co. to John Nicholas Brown, Cambridge/Newport/Providence for USD 6.000, October 1929; gift of John Nicholas Brown to Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1978; 16 May 1979 sale New York, Christie's (Impressionist and modern drawings and watercolours), lot 101 (Le zouave assis), bought by the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh for USD 308.000, at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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