Peasant Woman Bruising Flax (after Millet)
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, September 1889
oil on canvas, 40 cm x 26 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh painted this Peasant Woman Bruising Flax in a carefully balanced range of colours. He didn’t work from a live model, but from a black-and-white print. It was part of a series called Travaux des champs (‘Work in the Fields’), after paintings by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875). He copied all of the prints in the series.
Van Gogh was pleased with the result. He wrote to his brother Theo: ‘You’ll be surprised what effect the Travaux des champs take on in colour, it’s a very intimate series of his.’
- F-number
- F0697
- JH-number
- JH1788
- Object number
- s0043V1962
- Dimensions
- 40 cm x 26 cm, 55 cm x 41 cm, 6 cm
- Provenance
- Probably sent by the artist from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, at the end of April 1890; 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 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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