The Potato Eaters
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Nuenen, April 1885
lithograph on paper, 31.2 cm x 39.6 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
- F-number
- F1661
- JH-number
- JH0737
- Object number
- p0016V1962
- Edition
- seventeen, possibly eighteen known impressions
- Dimensions
- 31.2 cm x 39.6 cm, 26.8 cm x 32 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Nuenen to his brother Theo van Gogh, Parijs, 21 April 1885; after Theo’s 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 20 January 1931; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh on 10 July 1962 to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam; agreement concluded on 21 July 1962 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; 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.
- designer
- Vincent van Gogh
- printmaker
- Vincent van Gogh
- printer
- Dirk Gestel
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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