Sketch of Man and a Woman Planting Potatoes
9 April 1885
pen and ink on paper
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
- F-number
- F1225
- JH-number
- JH0729
- Object number
- d0281V1971
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 9
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Nuenen with letter 492 to his brother Theo van Gogh, Parijs, 9 April 1885; 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; 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; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren, to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 22 July 1971; 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.
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 'Je liefhebbende Vincent'. Van Goghs mooiste brieven, 9 October 2020-10 January 2021
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Van Gogh. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus der Vincent van Gogh-Stiftung im Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 24 January-1 March 1953, no. 39
The new complete Van Gogh : paintings, drawings, sketches, Amsterdam, 1996, p. 160, 162