Landscape with a Stack of Peat and Farmhouses
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Drenthe, September-December 1883
watercolour on paper, 41.7 cm x 54.1 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The dark structure in the middle of the drawing looks like a cottage, but it is actually a stack of peat. In Drenthe, peat was stacked in the form of a house with a sloping roof. Van Gogh gave the stack of peat a central place in his composition and showed its reflection in the ditch.
He wrote to his brother Theo that at dusk the fields of Drenthe were transformed into a 'sublime' place, 'when that vast, sun-scorched earth stands out dark against the delicate lilac tints of the evening sky, and the very last fine dark blue line on the horizon separates earth from sky'.
- F-number
- F1099
- JH-number
- JH0399
- Object number
- d0386M1977
- Dimensions
- 41.7 cm x 54.1 cm
- Provenance
- Probably left by the artist with his mother, A.C. van Gogh-Carbentus, Nuenen/Breda, sometime between November 1885 and February 1886; given in safekeeping to Janus Schrauwen, Breda, April 1888; left with Janus Schrauwen by A.C. van Gogh-Carbentus after her move to Leiden, 1889; sold by Janus Schrauwen to Jan C. Couvreur, 14 August 1902; sold by Jan C. Couvreur to Kees Mouwen Jr and Willem van Bakel, Breda, 1902-03; given on consignment by Kees Mouwen Jr and Willem van Bakel to Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Rotterdam; sold by Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, probably at their exhibition (Vincent van Gogh), (Landschap bij avond) to M. Gieseler, Rotterdam/The Hague, November 1903; after his death on 4 November 1923 inherited by his widow A.J.B. Gieseler-de Haan, The Hague; after her death on 20 April 1925, sale 27 October 1925, Amsterdam, Mak (Tableaux et aquarelles modernes. Collection du feu M. Gieseler), lot 28 (Paysage au déclin du jour), bought by Mr. and Mrs. W. van Beuningen-Fentener van Vlissingen, Utrecht/Vught, for NLG 1.000; after his death on 1 July 1948 with his widow C.E. van Beuningen-Fentener van Vlissingen; after her death on 28 January 1976 inherited by her grandson W. van Beuningen, Zutphen; sold by W. van Beuningen to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, October 1977, at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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