The Zouave
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, June 1888
oil on canvas, 65.8 cm x 55.7 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Do the colours in this painting seem a little harsh or ‘coarse’? That was exactly what Van Gogh intended. He wanted to 'work on portraits that are vulgar, even garish like [this] one. It teaches me, and that's what I ask of my work above all.' For the sake of the colour contrast, he painted red bricks on the right. Such bricks were not used in Arles.
Van Gogh was pleased that he had the opportunity to draw and paint this infantryman. There was nothing he liked more than working with models. But he rarely found people who were willing to pose for him.
- F-number
- F0423
- JH-number
- JH1486
- Object number
- s0067V1962
- Dimensions
- 65.8 cm x 55.7 cm, 83.0 cm x 72.7 cm
- Provenance
- Given by the artist to Paul Eugène Milliet to take to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, mid-August 1888; 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 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; agreement concluded 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, 21 July 1962; 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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