The Hill of Montmartre with Stone Quarry
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, June-July 1886
oil on canvas, 32 cm x 41 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh didn’t have to walk far to reach this quarry. It was just around the corner from the flat where he lived with his brother Theo. Vincent painted a number of pictures at this spot.
The quarry in the rue Caulaincourt provided stone for the multitude of construction projects in Paris. It was at the bottom of the hill of Montmartre, on the side not yet built-up. Nowadays, the street is in the middle of a residential area.
- F-number
- F0229
- JH-number
- JH1176
- Object number
- s0064V1962
- Dimensions
- 32 cm x 41 cm, 46.3 cm x 55.5 cm, 9 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between June-mid-July 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; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931; donated by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Laren, 11 March 1952; transferred by the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation to the Theo van Gogh Foundation, Laren, 28 December 1960; agreement concluded on 21 July 1962 between the (2nd) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 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; donated on 21 July 1962 by the Theo van Gogh Foundation to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation; 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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Zwolle, Museum de Fundatie, Van Gogh tot Cremer. Nederlandse kunstenaars in Parijs, 13 September 2014-4 January 2015
Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Devorar París. Picasso 1900-1907, 1 July-16 October 2011
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Van Goghs brieven. De kunstenaar aan het woord, 9 October 2009-3 January 2010
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Paul Signac. Meester van het pointillisme, 15 June-9 September 2001
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