Still Life with Bottles and Earthenware
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nuenen, November 1884-April 1885
oil on canvas, 31.5 cm x 41.8 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Not many people know that, for a short time, Van Gogh gave painting lessons to amateur artists. He wrote to his brother Theo, ‘I now have 3 people in Eindhoven who want to learn to paint and whom I’m teaching to paint still lifes.’ Van Gogh painted this picture while his pupils were busy with similar still lifes.
Van Gogh felt that still life painting was the best way to start – as he had done when he began his painting career three years before.
- F-number
- F0061r
- JH-number
- JH0533
- Object number
- s0060V1962r
- Dimensions
- 31.5 cm x 41.8 cm, 38.0 cm x 48.4 cm, 2.1 cm
- Provenance
- With his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after April 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 16 December 1930; 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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