Cottages
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nieuw Amsterdam, September-November 1883
oil on canvas, 35.4 cm x 55.7 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh painted Cottages in 1883, while staying in the village of Nieuw-Amsterdam in Drenthe. He wrote enthusiastically to his brother how ‘inexpressibly beautiful’ it was there. But, he added, ‘you can’t see that yet in my studies at all’. He still had ‘to learn a lot more’. In this picture, he is practising how to convey the contrast between a dark foreground and a light sky.
The paint on this canvas contains a lot of sand. It must have blown onto it while Van Gogh was working outdoors. If you zoom in, you can see the bright grains against the dark paint.
- F-number
- F0017
- JH-number
- JH0395
- Object number
- s0053V1962
- Dimensions
- 35.4 cm x 55.7 cm, 51.4 cm x 71.8 cm, 6.3 cm
- Provenance
- Possibly sent by the artist from Hoogeveen, c. 23 September 1883 or from Nieuw-Amsterdam, c. 13 November 1883 to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris; 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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