Torso of Venus
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, June 1886
oil on cardboard, 46.0 cm x 38.0 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh was thorough in everything he did. So when he decided to practise painting plaster models of classical sculptures, he immediately produced a whole series. He painted this torso of Venus five times, in each case from a different angle.
This time he has turned the model to face away from him. He has used a lot of paint and followed the curves of the body with his brush.
- F-number
- F0216a
- JH-number
- JH1054
- Object number
- s0056V1962
- Dimensions
- 46.0 cm x 38.0 cm, 55.1 cm x 46.5 cm, 5.0 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, mid-June 1886; 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 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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