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| Keywords: Vincent van Gogh - Head of an Old Peasant Woman with White Cap - F146 JH551.jpg Artwork title Tête de paysanne à la coiffe blanche Head of a peasant with white cap http //www sothebys com/de/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09139/lot 45 html Sotheby's New York 07 Mai 2014 lot 45 Nuenen 1884 12 creator Vincent van Gogh oil canvas panel cm 33 3 25 7 cite book Naifeh Steven; Smith Gregory White Van Gogh The Life http //vangoghbiography com/NotesIntroduction 978-1846680106 Profile Books 2011 http //www vangoghgallery com/catalog/Painting/232/Head 20of 20an 20Old 20Peasant 20Woman 20with 20White 20Cap html vangoghgallery com object history Col C Mouwen Jr Breda The Netherlands Galerie d ™Art Oldenzeel Rotterdam H van Ogtrop-van Kempen Aalst The Netherlands acquired by 1929 Mrs H van Ogtrop-van Kempen Aalst The Netherlands by descent from the above E J van Wisselingh Amsterdam Private Collection Spain and sold Sotheby's London June 30 1981 lot 27a Piccadilly Gallery London acquired at the above sale Landau Fine Art Montreal Acquired from the above in 1998 Sotheby's New York 7 May 2014 lot 45 1 205 000 exhibition history Rotterdam Galerie d ™Art Oldenzeel Vincent van Gogh 1903 credit line Van Gogh catalogues 146 551 <br/> In the winter of 1884 Vincent embarked on a series of portrait studies he called 'heads of the people' after a similarly titled series by Hubert von Herkomer published in The Graphic a graphic artist he especially admired In the end he produced some 50 of these studies declaring one must paint the peasants as if one were one of them as feeling thinking as they do themselves http //vangoghbiography com/notes php valuesearch 413 searchbykeyword yes searchbynote yes chapter All startpage endpage searchtype basic Naifeh and Smith pp 412-3 http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let484/letter html letter 484 These were the forerunner of his celebrated The Potato Eaters executed a few months later Hulsker p 136 <br/> The family portrayed in the The Potato Eaters was the De Groot family Their daughter Gordina was a frequent model sitting at least 20 times for portraits such as F140 in the National Gallery of Scotland In The Potato Eaters she is seated on the left hand side The sitter in the present portrait F146 is not known Hulsker describes her as having a long somewhat curved nose and gives her the letter designation 'J' in his catalogue of Vincent's models at this period She appears again in F75 F1193a JH646 F1149 and F74 Hulsker p 140 PD-old-100 accession number DEFAULTSORT Van Gogh 1884-12 Head of a peasant with white cap Sotheby's 2014 1884 paintings by Vincent van Gogh Portraits by Vincent van Gogh images from Sotheby's Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
