Self-Portrait
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, March-June 1886
oil on canvas, 27.2 cm x 19.0 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Van Gogh painted this small self-portrait in a single session. He had just moved to Paris at the time.
He was still painting in the sombre colours he had used in the Netherlands. He would soon abandon them, after seeing the work of the Impressionists. But in fact this painting was originally rather brighter: some of the pigments have faded over time.
- F-number
- F0208
- JH-number
- JH1195
- Object number
- s0159V1962
- Dimensions
- 27.2 cm x 19.0 cm, 36 cm x 28 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between March and 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; 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.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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