The Drinkers

1. The artist; sent to his brother, Theo van Gogh (died 1891); possibly by descent to his wife, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (died 1925). Given to Émile Bernard (died 1941), Paris, 1890 or 1891; his mother, Héloïse Bernard (died 1909), before 1899; given to Galerie Vollard, Paris, Jan. 7, 1899 [Vollard Stock Book, Wildenstein Gallery Archives, New York]; sold to Jack Aghion, Paris (died before 1914), by 1905 for 500 FRF [Paris 1905]. Carl Reininghaus, Vienna (died 1929), by 1909 to at least 1925 [Vienna 1909; Berlin 1914; Vienna 1925]; by descent, until 1931. Probably given on consignment to Galerie Thannhauser, Munich and Berlin, Apr. 1931 [according to annotated working list prepared for the Arts Club exhibition, Chicago 1936; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (died 1954), Burlington, Vt., before Nov. 13, 1933 [purchase from Thannhauser is implied by context on working list cited above]; given by Joseph Winterbotham to the Art Institute, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Salon des Indépendants, Exposition Rétrospective de l’Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh, Mar. 24–Apr. 30, 1905, cat. 1
• Vienna Secession, Internationale Kunstschau, May–Oct., 1909, cat. 10
• Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Zehnter Ausstellung. Vincent van Gogh, May–June, 1914, cat. 113.
• Vienna Secession, Die führenden Meister der franzöisischen Kunst im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, Mar.-Apr. 1925, cat. 89.
• Chicago, Arts Club, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, Dec. 9–31, 1936, cat. 44.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers, Nov. 25, 1986–Mar. 22, 1987, cat. 47.
• Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, Mar. 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 44; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988. [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago]
• Budapest, Sveepmuvesti Museum, Van Gogh in Budapest, Dec. 1, 2006—Apr. 1, 2007, cat. 69.
• Rome, Complesso Monumentale dell Vittoriano, Vincent Van Gogh: Timeless Country – Modern City, 8 Oct. 2010 – 6 Feb. 2011, cat. 86, as The Drinkers or The Four Ages of Man.
• Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh at Work, Sep. 1, 2013-Jan. 13, 2014, cat. 284.

• Julius Meier-Graefe, Vincent van Gogh (Munich 1912), 56, 57 (ill.).
• Julius Meier-Graefe, Vincent van Gogh, John Holyroyd Reece, trans. (London, Liverpool, and Boston, 1922), 70–71, pl. 82.
• Gustave Coquiot, Vincent van Gogh avec 24 reproductions hors texte de Vincent van Gogh (Paris, 1923), 319.
• Julius Meier-Graefe, Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst (Munich, 1927), 605, pl. 518 [first ed. Stuttgart, 1904].
• Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother, 1872–1886 (London: Constable; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1927), vol. 2, 83, no. 265.
• Vincent van Gogh, Further Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother, 1886–1889 (London: Constable; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929), vol. 2, 430 letter no. 623, 437 letter no. 626.
• Waldemar George, Van Gogh: 24 phototypies, Les Albums d’Art Druet 3 (Paris: Librairie de France, 1927), pl. 1.
• Jacob Baart de la Faille, L’Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh: catalogue raisonné (Paris: G. Van Oest, 1928), vol. 1, 187 no. 667; vol. 2, pl. 188.
• Wilhelm Uhde, Vincent van Gogh (Vienna: The Phaidon Press; London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1936), 16–17, pl. 80.
• W. Scherjon and W[illiam] J[osiah] de Gruyter, Vincent van Gogh’s Great Period: Arles, St. Remy and Auvers sur Oise (Amsterdam: De Spieghel, 1937), 291, no. 97.
• Jacob-Baart de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh, trans. Charles Terrasse (New York: French and European Publications; Paris: Hyperion Press, 1939), 473 fig. 687, 568.
• "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, Apr.–June 1953," Art Quarterly 16 (1953): 348, 356 (ill.).

Madame Roulin and Her Baby

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shoes

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Irises

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wheat Field with Cypresses

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Road in Etten

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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