A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage by Vincent van Gogh
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A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage

Vincent van Gogh · c. 1885

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; his mother, Mrs. A. C. Van Gogh Carbentus, Neunen and Breda, around 1885 [ according to a letter from Martha Op de Coul, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, Netherlands, Aug. 23, 2000]; given to the carpenter, Schrauwen, Breda, 1886 [this and the following according to Stokvis 1926, 5-6]; transferred to Jan and Rien Couvreur, Breda, 1903; sold to C. Mouwen, Jr., Breda; sold, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, May 3, 1904, lot 13, for 205 fl. to Van Gelder [according to annotated copy of sale catalogue; in curatorial object file]. Mejevrouw K. Cosman, The Hague, by June 1935 [this and the following according to La Faille, 1970, 617, and the E. J. Van Wisselingh and Co. stock book , Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie , The Hague]; sold to E. J. Van Wisselingh and Co., Amsterdam, by June 1935; sold to Harry S. Southam, Ottawa, June 24, 1935 until about 1944 [according to letter from Michael Pantazzi, National Gallery of Canada, July 26, 2000]. E. and A. Silberman, New York; sold to Dr. John J. Ireland (died 1968), Chicago, about 1964; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, Nov. 6, 1982–Jan. 2, 1983, cat. 99.
  • Tokyo, Seibu Museum, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18–Dec. 1, 1985, cat. 11; Kyoto, Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986, cat. 11.
  • Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Van Gogh und die Haager Schule (The Early Van Gogh and the Hague School), Feb. 28–May 27, 1996, cat. 78.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb. 14 - May 10, 2016, no cat. no., plate 2.

Literature

Published references

  • Benno J. Stokvis, Nasporingen omtrent Vincent van Gogh in Brabant (Amsterdam: Van Looy, 1926), 5-6
  • J[acob]-B[aart] de La Faille, L'Oeuvre de Vincent Van Gogh: Catalogue Raisonné (Paris and Brussels: G. Van Oest, 1928), 48 no. 142, pl. XXXVIII.
  • Walther Vanbeselaere, De hollandsche periode (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) (Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1937), possibly no. 142.
  • J[acob]-B[aart] de La Faille, Vincent Van Gogh, trans. Prudence Montagu-Pollock (New York: French and European Publications; Paris: Hyperion, 1939), 157 no. 190 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1967-1968 (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), 16.
  • Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 62, no. 4 (September 1968): cover ill., 2.
  • J[acob]-B[aart] de La Faille, The Works of Vincent Van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 88 (ill.), 88 (ill), 89 no. F139, 617.
  • Paola Lecaldano, L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh, vol. 1 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1977), 104 no. 171.

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