Montmartre in the Snow
1876-1877
oil on canvas
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Theo and Vincent were no doubt taken with this work, which they acquired for their shared collection. Lepère painted rue Lepic in Paris, where the brothers moved to in June 1886. From this vantage point, they lived a little farther up the street, on the fourth floor of number 54.
Visible at the left in the painting is part of the Moulin de la Galette, a popular venue at the heart of Montmartre’s social life, where people gathered for leisure and enjoyment. To the north of the Moulin lay vegetable gardens and a vineyard. In Montmartre, busy streets alternated with more pastoral pockets of land.
- Object number
- s0248V1962
- Dimensions
- 61 x 38 , 75.5 x 52.3 , 10
- Provenance
- Theo van Gogh, Paris; 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, Laren, 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; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Ōsaka, Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Van Gogh’s Home: the Van Gogh Museum. The Painter's Legacy, the Family Collection, the Ongoing Story, 5 July-31 August 2025
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Landelijk Montmartre, 13 October 2017-7 January 2018
Kōbe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Vincent & Theo van Gogh, 7 September-4 November 2002
Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Vincent & Theo van Gogh, 5 July-25 August 2002
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, De wereld van Montmartre. Amusement en avant-garde, 1875-1905, 14 July-14 September 2000
Van Gogh and Montmartre, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 36-37, 40