Zelfportret
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, March-June 1887
oil on cardboard, 19.1 cm x 14.1 cm
Credits:
This self-portrait is one of the smallest oil paintings Van Gogh ever made. Actually, it’s more of an oil sketch than a finished painting. He has used a cheap piece of card and worked fast, with fairly broad brushes.
The green of his eyes and the orange of his beard leap out at you. The effect is enhanced by his use of mainly muted colours elsewhere in the picture. Originally, however, his face was more colourful; research has revealed that a red pigment in the paint has faded over time.
- F-number
- F0267
- JH-number
- JH1224
- Object number
- s0155V1962
- Dimensions
- 19.1 cm x 14.1 cm, 28.5 cm x 24 cm, 4 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between March and June 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, 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; 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
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