De houthakker (naar Millet)
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, September 1889
oil on canvas, 44 cm x 26.2 cm
Credits:
Within a short period in September 1889, Van Gogh produced paintings based on ten prints. They included this woodcutter. The prints were a series of small wood engravings, themselves based on ten paintings by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875).
Van Gogh copied the images as accurately as he could, given the small size of the engravings. He didn’t regard the resulting paintings as mere copies. He saw them as free polychrome ‘interpretations’ of monochrome prints by another artist. Just as a musician might make a new arrangement of a piece by another composer.
- F-number
- F0670
- JH-number
- JH1886
- Object number
- s0170V1962
- Dimensions
- 44 cm x 26.2 cm, 58.2 cm x 39.6 cm
- Provenance
- Probably sent by the artist from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, at the end of April 1890; 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; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, from 1930 to 1937; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, on 10 July 1962 to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam; 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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BAM Beaux-Arts Mons, Van Gogh in de Borinage. De geboorte van een kunstenaar, no. geen catnr. / no cat. no.
Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh aan het werk, no. geen catnr. / no cat. no.
Hiroshima Museum of Art, Van Gogh, Millet and the Barbizon artists, no. 20
Iwate Museum of Art, Van Gogh, Millet and the Barbizon artists, no. 20
Nagoya City Art Museum, Van Gogh, Millet and the Barbizon artists, no. 20
Van Gogh Museum, De keuze van Vincent. Van Goghs Musée imaginaire, no. 51
Musée d'Orsay, Millet - Van Gogh, no. 64
Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh & Millet, no. 52
Rassegna Internazionale delle Arti e della Cultura, D'Après. Hommages et dissacrations dans l'art contemporain, no. 155
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Vincent van Gogh. Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, no. 70
Detroit Institute of Arts, Vincent van Gogh. Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, no. 70
Carnegie Institute, Vincent van Gogh. Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, no. 70
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Vincent van Gogh. Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, no. 70
Albright Art Gallery, Vincent van Gogh. Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, no. 70
Cleveland Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh. Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, no. 70
Baltimore Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh. Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, no. 70
Feestzaal Antwerpen, Vincent van Gogh, no. 319
Provinciehuis, Vincent van Gogh in Assen, no. 26
Hoogovens, restaurant Walserij Oost, Vincent van Gogh. Exposition in the canteens of the Royal Netherlands Blast Furnaces and Steelworks, no. geen catnr. / no cat. no.
Kasteel Hoensbroek, Vincent van Gogh, no. 50
Parochiehuis, Vincent van Gogh in Zundert, no. 33
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Art Institute of Chicago, Vincent van Gogh Paintings and Drawings. A Special Loan Exhibition, no. 114
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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Vincent van Gogh. Collectie ir. V.W. van Gogh, no. 153
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Kunsthalle Bremen, Zonder titel, no. geen catnr. / no cat. no.
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