Keywords: Van Gogh 1881-04, Etten - Sower (after Millet) F 830 JH 1.jpg Artwork Creator Vincent van Gogh The Sower after Millet 1881 4 Technique Pen wash heightened with green and white ordinary gray wove paper cm 48 36 5 cite book Naifeh Steven; Smith Gregory White Van Gogh The Life http //vangoghbiography com/NotesIntroduction 978-1846680106 Profile Books 2011 Institution Van Gogh Museum Exhibition history First exhibited 1914-5 Amsterdam Object history Mrs J van Gogh-Bonger Amsterdam V W van Gogh Laren Van Gogh Museum inv nr F830 Van Gogh catalogues 830 1 Probably copied after Le Rat's etching of The Sower de la Faille Vincent's squared-up copy of Le Rat's etching can be seen in the Commons here An editorial note in http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let156/letter html letter 156 says it is not certain whether Vincent possessed his copy at this time He had copied the same image eight months earlier in Cuesmes http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let156/letter html letter 156 and in a http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let157/letter html following letter says he has copied it five time over in all Most of these early studies including the whole series of sixty studies in the Bargue drawing course he is known to have executed three times over are lost Hulsker p 13 For Millet's original painting see for example the version in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston of which there is a Google Art Project file on Commons here There are several versions of this painting The editorial note in letter 156 says Vincent may have seen a pastel version at an 1875 Paris sale of Millet drawings http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let036/letter html n-5 letter 36 http //vangoghletters org/vg/search/advanced originaltext original translation translation annotations notes essays essays bibliography bibliography other other term person_terms person_code literature_terms literature_code workofart_terms workofart_code sketch_terms sketch_code bibleref_terms bibleref_code f_number 830 jh_number periodical from 1 to 1 id_range id_type jlb_id date_from 1872-09-29 date_until 1890-07-31 period correspondent_name correspondent_id place_name place_id order date search2 x 27 search2 y 8 Letters cite web Letter 036 to Theo van Gogh Paris Tuesday 29 June 1875 http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let036/letter html n-5 Vincent van Gogh The Letters Van Gogh Museum 1r 1 There was a sale here of drawings by Millet I don ™t know whether I ™ve already written to you about it When I entered the room in Hôtel Drouot where they were exhibited I felt something akin to Put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground Exodus 3 5 cite web Letter 156 to Theo van Gogh Cuesmes Friday 20 August 1880 http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let156/letter html Vincent van Gogh The Letters Van Gogh Museum 1r 1 You should know that I ™m sketching large drawings after Millet and that I ™ve done The four times of the day as well as The sower cite web Letter 157 to Theo van Gogh Cuesmes Tuesday 7 September 1880 http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let157/letter html Vincent van Gogh The Letters Van Gogh Museum 1v 3 As for The sower I ™ve drawn it 5 times now twice small 3 times large and yet I ™ll go back to it again that figure haunts me so cite web Letter 166 to Theo van Gogh Etten on or about Saturday 30 April or Sunday 1 May 1881 http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let166/letter html Vincent van Gogh The Letters Van Gogh Museum 1r 1 Meanwhile I ™ve started on the Millets The sower presumably this drawing F830 is finished and the 4 times of the day sketched And now still to come are The labours of the field vggallery com Compare ISBN 978-3-8321-9158-0 p 35 PD-old-100 Other versions <gallery>File Van Gogh - Der Sämann jpeg</gallery> DEFAULTSORT Van Gogh 1881-04 Etten - Sower after Millet F_830 JH_1 jpg Sowers in art Etten period works by Vincent van Gogh Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Ink and wash paintings |