Nude Girl, Seated
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, April-June 1886
oil on canvas, 27.1 cm x 23.5 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
This little girl made a rather awkward model. Van Gogh painted her in the Paris atelier of Fernand Cormon (1845-1924) while taking painting lessons there for about three months. The same girl can be found in some of his drawings.
He painted her by the method he had learned at the academy. First, he applied a greenish-grey underlayer. Then he covered it with thin layers of paint, going from dark to light. Finally, he added dark accents to the shadows.
- F-number
- F0215
- JH-number
- JH1045
- Object number
- s0090V1962
- Dimensions
- 27.1 cm x 23.5 cm, 38 cm x 32.5 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between April and the beginning of June 1886; 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 22 October 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.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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