Small Bottle with Peonies and Blue Delphiniums
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, June-July 1886
oil on cardboard, 34.5 cm x 27 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh painted this flower still life on a simple piece of card, using rapid, loose brushstrokes. It is one of many studies in which he experimented with the effects of different colours on each other. His brother Theo wrote to their mother: ‘He is mainly painting flowers, with the aim of making future pictures brighter in colour.
Theo wrote that acquaintances were giving Van Gogh a bunch of flowers every week. This was one of the first bunches he painted; many more were to follow.
- F-number
- F0243a
- JH-number
- JH1106
- Object number
- s0182V1962
- Dimensions
- 34.5 cm x 27 cm, 50.5 cm x 43 cm, 6 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between the end of June and 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; possibly donated by Jo van Gogh-Bonger to her brother Henri Bonger, Amsterdam, after 1891; after his death on 19 May 1929 inherited by his sister Betsy Bonger, Amsterdam; after her death on 17 January 1944 inherited by her nephew Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren; 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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