Self-Portrait with Straw Hat
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, July-August 1887
oil on canvas, 41.8 cm x 31.5 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
It’s lucky for us that Van Gogh was so often unable to afford a model. To practice figure painting, he had to resort to making self-portraits. So we get an impression of how he saw himself. Only one portrait photo of him has survived and neither shows him as an adult.
He painted this self-portrait when he was living in Paris. Unable to pay for new canvas, he used the back of an earlier still life.
- F-number
- F0061v
- JH-number
- JH1302
- Object number
- s0060V1962v
- Dimensions
- 41.8 cm x 31.5 cm, 48.4 cm x 38.0 cm, 2.1 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between mid-July-August 1887; 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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