Portrait of Léonie Rose Charbuy-Davy
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, March-April 1887
oil on canvas, 60.7 cm x 45.7 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Much as Van Gogh would have liked to paint more portraits, he didn’t often get the chance. In the spring of 1887, he had the opportunity to paint a young Parisian woman called Léonie Rose Charbuy-Davy. She was the niece of art dealer Pierre Firmin Martin, who sometimes exhibited Van Gogh’s paintings.
She is sitting by the fire, next to a baby’s cradle. The fire casts a red glow on the floor. The shape of the rest of the room is not entirely clear.
- F-number
- F0369
- JH-number
- JH1206
- Object number
- s0165V1962
- Dimensions
- 60.7 cm x 45.7 cm, 79 cm x 64.2 cm, 8.5 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, March-April 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; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, from 1927 to 1930; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931; 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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