Dish with Citrus Fruit
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, February-March 1887
oil on canvas, 21.5 cm x 27.5 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
In early 1887, Van Gogh experimented with thinned oil paint on an absorbent ground. This creates a matt, translucent effect. Van Gogh's Dish with Citrus Fruit is an example of this technique, which is called peinture à l'essence.
If you look closely, you can see that the fruit and the background were painted with parallel lines and hatching. Van Gogh used his thinnest brushes for this purpose. Some strokes are less than half a millimetre wide.
- F-number
- F0338
- JH-number
- JH1237
- Object number
- s0193V1962
- Dimensions
- 21.5 cm x 27.5 cm, 32.0 cm x 38.0 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, February-March 1887; 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; 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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