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Vincent van Gogh: Head of an Old Peasant Woman with White Cap  wikidata:Q26220151 reasonator:Q26220151
Artist
Vincent van Gogh  (1853–1890)  wikidata:Q5582 s:en:Author:Vincent van Gogh q:en:Vincent van Gogh
 
Vincent van Gogh
Alternative names
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 30 March 1853 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1890 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Zundert Edit this at Wikidata Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period between circa 1880 and circa July 1890
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Netherlands (Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886
date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
),
Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889),
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5582
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Head of an Old Peasant Woman with White Cap
label QS:Lfr,"Tête de paysanne à la coiffe blanche"
label QS:Len,"Head of an Old Peasant Woman with White Cap"
label QS:Ltr,"Beyaz Şapkalı Yaşlı Köylü Kadın Başı"
label QS:Lde,"Kopf einer alten Bäuerin mit weißer Haube"
label QS:Lnl,"Kop van een oude boerin met een witte muts"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Date December 1884
date QS:P571,+1884-12-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium oil on canvas mounted on panel
Dimensions height: 33.3 cm (13.1 in); width: 25.7 cm (10.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,33.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,25.7U174728
Place of creation Nuenen Edit this at Wikidata
Object history
  • Col. C. Mouwen Jr., Breda, The Netherlands
  • Galerie d’Art Oldenzeel, Rotterdam
  • H. van Ogtrop-van Kempen, Aalst, The Netherlands (acquired by 1929)
  • Mrs. H. van Ogtrop-van Kempen, Aalst, The Netherlands (by descent from the above)
  • E.J. van Wisselingh, Amsterdam
  • Private Collection, Spain (and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 30, 1981, lot 27a)
  • Piccadilly Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale)
  • Landau Fine Art, Montreal
  • Acquired from the above in 1998
  • Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 2014, lot 45: $1,205,000
  • Private Collection
  • M.S. Rau, New Orleans
Exhibition history
  • Rotterdam, Galerie d’Art, Oldenzeel, Vincent van Gogh, 1903
Notes

Catalogues raisonnés:

  • F146: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 146 .
  • JH551 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no.  551.

In the winter of 1884, Vincent embarked on a series of portrait studies he called 'heads of the people' after a similarly titled series by Hubert von Herkomer published in The Graphic, a graphic artist he especially admired. In the end he produced some 50 of these studies, declaring "one must paint the peasants as if one were one of them, as feeling, thinking as they do themselves" (Naifeh and Smith, pp. 412-3, letter 484). These were the forerunner of his celebrated The Potato Eaters executed a few months later (Hulsker p. 136).

The family portrayed in the The Potato Eaters was the De Groot family. Their daughter Gordina was a frequent model, sitting at least 20 times for portraits such as F140 in the National Gallery of Scotland. In The Potato Eaters she is seated on the left hand side. The sitter in the present portrait F146 is not known. Hulsker describes her as having a long, somewhat curved nose, and gives her the letter designation 'J' in his catalogue of Vincent's models at this period. She appears again in F75, F1193a, JH646, F1149, and F74 (Hulsker p. 140).
References
Source/Photographer M.S. Rau, New Orleans

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