The Sheaf-Binder (after Millet)
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, September 1889
oil on canvas, 44.5 cm x 33.1 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
At the psychiatric clinic in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh hardly ever had access to live models. Even so, he was keen to practice figure painting. So he arrived at the idea of basing his paintings on engravings of works by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875). The Sheaf Binder comes from a 10-part series entitled Travaux des champs (‘Work in the Fields’).
Vincent wrote to his brother about his underlying reason for using the prints in this way: ‘since I am above all ill at present, I’m trying to do something to console myself, for my own pleasure’.
- F-number
- F0693
- JH-number
- JH1785
- Object number
- s0173V1962
- Dimensions
- 44.5 cm x 33.1 cm, 58.2 cm x 47.5 cm, 6.5 cm
- Provenance
- Probably sent by the artist from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, at the end of April 1890; 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; 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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