• I: Mrs. J. van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam; V.W. van Gogh, Laren; Van Gogh Museum
• II: Ph. de Kanter, Delft; H.E. d'Audretsch, Amerongen; Amerongen, Mrs. D'Audretsch-Krop [R 1968]
• III C.M. van Gogh Art Gallery, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Art Gallery, [Amsterdam]; De Bois Art Gallery, Haarlem; W.F. Arntz; Sale Stuttgart [Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett] 24 November 1953, nr 1082; Stutgartt, Staatsgalerie [acquired 1954], in nr GVL 32[A 54/1529] (nb. pedigree based on 24 November 1953 sale catalogue, nr 1082]
• IV Proof formerly in the collection of Paul Gachet; Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Paris (?)
• The British Museum impression is noted on the museum page at purchased from the De Bois Art Gallery, Haarlem, in 1929 by Henry Van den Bergh, who donated it to the BM via the Art Fund (as NACF).

Catalogues raisonnés:

• F1659: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amesterdão: J.M. Meulenhoff, nr 1659 .
• JH379 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, nr  379.
  
• In June 1883 Vincent got permission to sketch in the Old Men’s and Women’s Home at Om en Bij (52°04′19″N 4°18′24″E / 52.071889°N 4.306697°E / 52.071889; 4.306697) (now redeveloped) where the previous September he had found his model Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland. Men residents were known as "orphan men". The original drawing on which this lithograph is based is lost, although Vincent later did a letter sketch from memory (letter 362). He used Zuyderland as a model for the lithograph.
• Letters
• Letter 351 to Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1883. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "Today I asked for permission to draw sketches in the old men’s and old women’s home, namely the men’s ward, the women’s ward and the garden. I was there today. From the window I sketched an old gardener by a crooked apple tree, and the workshop of the home’s carpenter, where I drank tea with two orphan men."
• Letter 362 to Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 13 July 1883. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "Had the Orphan man [Zuyderland] again today for something that suddenly occurred to me and that I wanted to press ahead with before beginning on something else. I must tell you that I’ve been to the orphanage again after all on a visiting day. That was when I saw the gardener and drew him from the window. Well, I didn’t want to let that go, and now I’ve got it down in roughly this form, as far as I can remember [sketch annexed]."
• Letter 363 to Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 22 July 1883. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "You say that the effect of the autographs [prints of the lithographs drawn in autographic ink] is rather meagre. That doesn’t surprise me in the least when I consider that someone’s physical state influences his work, and my life is too dry and too meagre. Honestly, Theo, for the sake of the work we ought to have eaten a little better, but we couldn’t afford it and things will stay like that if I don’t get a little more leeway by one means or another."
• Letter 365 to Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Monday, 23 July 188. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "What I wrote to you about (and about which you also wrote, our thoughts have crossed again), the meagreness or what they call the dryness is what must be overcome each day anew, and mustn’t become a chronic defect.
  See, again I find it remarkable that you and I really seem to have thought the same thing again, for when you wrote just a brief word about it, that’s what immediately catches the eye in the two autographs. And in the photos too."

• L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh: catalogue raisonné, F1659 
• The New Complete Van Gogh: Fully revised and enlarged edition of the Catalogue raisonné, JH379
• Art in the Christian Tradition ID: 55406 

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