Tulip Fields near The Hague
Currently on view
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926), 1886
oil on canvas, 66 cm x 81.5 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (this work is part of the Netherlands Art Property Collection (Nederlands Kunstbezit-collectie) consisting of works recovered from Germany after World War II and held in trust by the Dutch State. The work is on loan to the Van Gogh Museum)
Monet was profoundly struck by the vibrant colours of the Dutch tulip fields. In the spring of 1886, he wrote, ‘It’s impossible to convey with our poor colours.’ Although Monet had visited the Netherlands before, this was his first attempt at painting this sea of flowers. After returning to Paris, he sold the picture through the art dealership of Boussod, Valadon & Cie, where Theo van Gogh worked.
Theo had been writing to his brother Vincent with admiration for Monet since 1885. When Vincent moved to Paris in 1886, he was finally able to witness firsthand what his brother had been describing. Gradually, Vincent became an admirer of Monet’s swift brushstrokes and bright colours. It is entirely possible that he saw this painting at Theo’s gallery.
- Object number
- s0530N2012
- Dimensions
- 66 cm x 81.5 cm, 85 cm x 101 cm, 8 cm
- Provenance
- Sold by the artist to Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris, 1887; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1889; sold by C. Ferris Thompson to Boussod, Valadon & Cie for FRF 2.550, 31 August 1891; sold by Boussod, Valadon & Cie to Isodore Montaignac, Paris for FRF 2.900, the same day; Bertha Honoré Palmer, Chicago, c. 1903; probably after her death on 5 May 1918 inherited by her sons Honoré Palmer and Potter Palmer Jr., Chicago; probably sold by Honoré Palmer and Potter Palmer Jr. to Howard Young, New York, between 28 October and 4 December 1922; Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, c. 1925 and certainly by 1931; sold by Galerie Durand-Ruel to Kunsthandel Van Wisselingh, Amsterdam for NLG 3.360,10, 27 March 1937; sold by Kunsthandel Van Wisselingh to Marie Paul Voûte, Baarn for NLG 6.800, the same day; sold by Marie Paul Voûte through Kunsthandel Van Wisselingh to Hans Rudolph, Berlin for DEM 56.600, 26 May 1943; sold by Hans Rudolph to Hans W. Lange, Berlin for DEM 80.000, January 1944; confiscated by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section at Schloss Wiesentheid, Oberfranken and placed in the Central Collecting Point, München (nr. 20048), 20 February 1946; transferred by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section to the Netherlands Art Property Foundation (SNK), Amsterdam, 8 November 1946; transferred to the State of the Netherlands, 21 May 1952; on long-term loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, from 17 July 1991, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994; on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum, from 2 July 2012.
- artist
- Claude Monet
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (this work is part of the Netherlands Art Property Collection (Nederlands Kunstbezit-collectie) consisting of works recovered from Germany after World War II and held in trust by the Dutch State. The work is on loan to the Van Gogh Museum)
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