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Young Girl in an Apron
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch (worked in France), 1853–1890)
1883
Medium/Technique
Black crayon, iron-gall ink (with pen and brush), charcoal, graphite, opaque white watercolor and some highlights created by erasure on moderately thick strongly textured wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 48.6 x 25.6 cm (19 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Framed: 75.6 x 51.1 cm (29 3/4 x 20 1/8 in.)
Framed: 75.6 x 51.1 cm (29 3/4 x 20 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Francis Warden Fund
Accession Number1970.468
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
De la Faille 1685; Hulsker 300
DescriptionSee Notes for confirmation of media.
InscriptionsVerso: upper left, in pen: "6"
ProvenanceJanuary 6, 1883, possibly sent by the artist to his brother, Theo van Gogh (b. 1857 - d. 1891), Paris [see note 1]; 1891, by inheritance from Theo to his widow, Johanna (Jo) van Gogh-Bonger (b. 1862 - d. 1925), Bussum, Amsterdam, Laren, and their son, Vincent Willem Van Gogh (b. 1890 - d. 1978), Laren; April 1-7, 1897, exhibited (possibly lent by Johanna van Gogh-Bonger), Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands [see note 2]. Oldenzeel Art Gallery, Rotterdam [see note 3]. Private collection, Netherlands [see note 4]; April 15, 1969, anonymous sale, Kunstveilingen Mak van Waay N. V., Amsterdam, lot 204, sold to a private collector with Jon Nicholas Streep (dealer), New York and Amsterdam; by 1970, sold by Jon Nicholas Streep to E. V. Thaw & Co., New York; May 1970, sold by E. V. Thaw & Co. to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 16, 1970)
NOTES:
[1] According to Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, Nienke Bakker (eds.) (2009), Vincent van Gogh - The Letters. Version: October 2021, Amsterdam & The Hague: Van Gogh Museum & Huygens ING (https://vangoghletters.org), this drawing may have been sent with a January 6, 1883 letter from Van Gogh to his brother. In a January 13, 1883 letter (no. 301), Vincent referenced“…the poor little girl — you can see from the drawing that the deep misery of the past hasn’t been wiped away yet…”
[2] This early provenance is according to Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten, and Marije Vellekoop, Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings (New Haven, 2005), pp. 84-85, 363, cat. no. 13.
[3] According to the 1969 Mak van Waay auction catalogue.
[4] According to J. B. de la Faille in The Works of Vincent Van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (catalogue raisonné), p. 671 (Amsterdam, 1970).
NOTES:
[1] According to Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, Nienke Bakker (eds.) (2009), Vincent van Gogh - The Letters. Version: October 2021, Amsterdam & The Hague: Van Gogh Museum & Huygens ING (https://vangoghletters.org), this drawing may have been sent with a January 6, 1883 letter from Van Gogh to his brother. In a January 13, 1883 letter (no. 301), Vincent referenced“…the poor little girl — you can see from the drawing that the deep misery of the past hasn’t been wiped away yet…”
[2] This early provenance is according to Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten, and Marije Vellekoop, Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings (New Haven, 2005), pp. 84-85, 363, cat. no. 13.
[3] According to the 1969 Mak van Waay auction catalogue.
[4] According to J. B. de la Faille in The Works of Vincent Van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (catalogue raisonné), p. 671 (Amsterdam, 1970).