Vincent van Gogh: Wheatfield under Thunderclouds
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Artist |
Vincent van Gogh
(1853–1890) |
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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 |
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artist QS:P170,Q5582 |
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Title |
Wheatfield under thunderclouds label QS:Lnl,"Korenveld onder onweerslucht"
label QS:Len,"Wheatfields Under Thunderclouds" |
Object type |
painting |
Genre |
landscape art |
Date |
1890 (before 10 July) |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 50 cm (19.6 in); width: 100 cm (39.3 in) dimensions QS:P2048,50U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,100U174728 |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q224124 |
Accession number |
inv nr F778 |
Place of creation |
Auvers-sur-Oise |
Object history |
- Mrs. J. van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam
- V.W. van Gogh, Laren
- Vincent van Gogh Museum
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Exhibition history |
- first exhibited VvG, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, July-August 1905, 474 nrs [233]
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Notes |
- Catalogues raisonnés:
- F778: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 778 .
- JH2097 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 2097.
- For an overview of van Gogh's wheat field pictures see the Wikipedia article Wheat fields.
- A letter of around 10 July 1890 to his brother Theo is generally taken as evidence of Vincent's depressed state of mind at the time. In the letter he refers obliquely to money and health problems and continues "There – once back here I set to work again – the brush however almost falling from my hands and – knowing clearly what I wanted I’ve painted another three large canvases since then. They’re immense stretches of wheatfields under turbulent skies, and I made a point of trying to express sadness, extreme loneliness ...", though this dispirited remark is immediately followed by the cheerier "You’ll see this soon, I hope – for I hope to bring them to you in Paris as soon as possible, since I’d almost believe that these canvases will tell you what I can’t say in words, what I consider healthy and fortifying about the countryside."
- One of these three canvases is described by van Gogh himself as Daubigny's garden F776. The identity of the remaining two canvases is not known exactly from the letter, but they are thought to be this one F778 and Wheatfield with Crows F779 (de la Faille, p. 299). Jan Hulsker departs from this commonly accepted view, citing F781 and F782 as the paintings in question (Hulsker, p. 476-8), a view echoed by Van der Ween and Knapp (p. 59).
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References |
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Source/Photographer |
Museum Page (the image was stitched from tiles - for assembly method used see The Potato Eaters) |
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