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Vincent van Gogh: Head of a Peasant Woman: Right Profile

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Alternative names	Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description	Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death	30 March 1853	29 July 1890
Location of birth/death	Zundert	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	: Q5582 VIAF: 9854560 ISNI: 0000000120955689 ULAN: 500115588 LCCN: n79022935 NLA: 35130087 WorldCat

Title

Head of a Peasant Woman: Right Profile

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Date

December 1884

Medium

oil on canvas mounted on panel

Dimensions

height: 40 cm (15.7 in); width: 30 cm (11.8 in)

Collection

Private collection

Place of creation

Nuenen

Object history

Dufresne Art Gallery, Paris
Private collection, Amsterdam, and thence by descent to the previous owner

Notes

Catalogues raisonnés:

F136: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 136 .
JH683 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 683.

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vangoghgallery.com

Source/Photographer

Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5459995 (sale 7974, lot 57, London, 21 June 2011)

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http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5459995 --------------------------------- Vincent van Gogh painted this Head of a Peasant Woman: Right Profile in the Dutch village of Nuenen between December 1884 and the end of March 1885. It is part of a series of pictures of the heads of peasants that Van Gogh instinctively painted in the colours of the earth off which his sitters lived. From the letters he wrote from Nuenen to his Paris-based art-dealer brother Theo, we know that the series was begun in December 1884, continued through March 1885 and culminated in the masterpiece of Van Gogh's 'peasant period', The Potato Eaters (April 1885). Indeed, the sitter of Head of a Peasant Woman: Right Profile is Gordina/Dien, also known as Sien, De Groot, a member of the family who posed in their own home as The Potato Eaters (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). Sien may well be the second figure from the left in the large composition (Fig. 1). Years later, Van Gogh mentioned her in a letter to his sister, in which he referred to The Potato Eaters as, 'the best thing I did' (Vincent van Gogh to Willemien van Gogh, Paris, late October 1887, in Vincent van Gogh, The Letters: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, ed. by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, vol. 3, 1883-1887, London, 2009, p. 370). In letters to his brother dated mid-December 1884, Van Gogh reveals his decision to paint fifty heads of peasants inspired by illustrations of 'The Legal World' by Paul Renouard (1845-1924) that had appeared that year in Paris illustré (Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, Nuenen, 14 December 1884, 16 December 1884, in Ibid., pp. 196-8). In March 1885, Vincent wrote to Theo again, highlighting the advance of his contemporary head studies in relation to those done in previous years, as well as their foundational character in the development of the artist's subsequent depiction of the entire De Groot family: 'I'm making studies, and precisely because of this I can very well conceive of the possibility that a time will come when I, too, will be able to compose readily. And, after all, it is difficult to say where study stops and painting begins' (Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, Nuenen, March 1885, in Ibid., pp. 210-13). Although Van Gogh insists on the heads being in the nature of studies, Head of a Peasant Woman: Right Profile, being the image of an identified contemporary, can be considered to be the sketch of a generic social type, as part of the development of his early masterpiece The Potato Eaters, and as an individual portrait. Following a course in anatomy and physiognomy at the Belgium's Académie royale des beaux-arts in Brussels and a period in The Hague, in 1883 the thirty-year old Van Gogh decided to return home to his parents, who were then living in Nuenen. This decision, given the artist's age and difficult relationship with his father, can be explained by financial necessity and also by Van Gogh's deep-seated desire - induced by a visit to an artists' community in northern France in 1879-80 and by a fervent passion for the novels of the French Naturalists - to become a painter of peasant life. Life and art in Nuenen proved more trying than expected for Van Gogh. Indirectly, this was due to Sien De Groot: the young, unmarried girl was the unwilling cause of a public scandal in which Van Gogh became involved in the summer of 1885, when the local reverend accused him of fathering the child to whom she gave birth that October. The scandal, in which the burgomaster was asked to intervene, added to other difficulties experienced by Van Gogh in Nuenen - the long-standing conflict with his father, who died in 1885, and the poor financial conditions which restricted the artist's access to painting material and models and made him rely increasingly on his brother's generosity. With the reverend forbidding his parishioners to model for Van Gogh, the artist eventually left Nuenen for Antwerp at the end of 1885. In fact, it appears evident from a letter Vincent sent to Theo in September that the pC:\Program Files (x86)\IrfanView\i_view32.ini

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