Portrait of Doctor Gachet
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Auvers-sur-Oise, June 1890
etching on paper, 31.6 cm x 23.4 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
- F-number
- F1664
- JH-number
- JH2028
- Object number
- p0466V1962
- Edition
- unique proof, ca. 14 impressions known printed by Van Gogh & Gachet
- Dimensions
- 31.6 cm x 23.4 cm, 18.3 cm x 15.1 cm, 18 cm x 15 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Auvers-sur-Oise to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, after 15 May 1890; 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; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren, 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
- printmaker
- Paul Ferdinand Gachet (père)
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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