Vincent van Gogh: The 'Laakmolen' near The Hague
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Artista |
Vincent van Gogh
(1853–1890) |
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Nomes alternativos |
Vincent Willem van Gogh |
Descrição |
pintor, desenhista e gravurista neerlandês |
Data de nascimento/falecimento |
30 de março de 1853 |
29 de julho de 1890 |
Local de nascimento/falecimento |
Zundert |
Auvers-sur-Oise |
Período de trabalho |
cerca de 1880 a julho de 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 |
Local de trabalho |
Países Baixos ( Etten, Haia, Nuenen, …, antes de 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) |
Arquivo de autoridade |
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artist QS:P170,Q5582 |
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Título |
The "Laakmolen" near The Hague (The Windmill) label QS:Len,"The "Laakmolen" near The Hague (The Windmill)" |
Tipo de objecto |
aquarela |
Data |
verão de 1882 date QS:P571,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720564 |
Técnica |
aquarela e caneta sobre papel sobre madeira |
Dimensões |
altura: 37,7 cm; largura: 56 cm dimensions QS:P2048,37.7U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,56U174728 |
Coleção |
Coleção particular institution QS:P195,Q768717 |
Localização do objecto |
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Notas |
- Catalogues raisonnés:
- F884: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amesterdão: J.M. Meulenhoff, nr 884 .
- JH59 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, nr 59.
- Both Hulsker and De La Faille place the work as done at Etten around October 1881. Hulsker notes that the work is not mentioned anywhere and is difficult to place. Christie's, following Martha Op de Coul [1990], date the watercolor as done later in summer 1882 after van Gogh had moved to The Hague. The mill is identified as the Laakmolen, a well known mill on the way to Rijswijk, at that time a village near The Hague (see letter 11 n. 15). Here you could get milk to drink (a sign Melk te koop "milk for sale") is visible in the watercolor). If the mill is indeed the Laakmolen, then the watercolor assumes considerable popular interest because in the summer of 1872 (i.e. some ten years earlier), Vincent's brother Theo had come to visit Vincent at The Hague and together they had walked to a mill at Rijswijk (presumed to be the Laakmolen, one of just two at Rijswijk) where they drank milk together. It seems this walk held special emotional significance for Vincent, as he later referred to it several times in his letters to Theo. Biographers have suggested that at this time they made a pact together to pursue a career in art (Naifeh et al., p. 76 n. 187).
- There is an article in the Dutch wikipedia on the Laakmolen here. The mill's geolocation is 52°4′4.16″N 4°19′56.98″E / 52.0678222°N 4.3324944°E / 52.0678222; 4.3324944
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Referências |
- Naifeh, Steven and Smith, Gregory White. Van Gogh: the Life, New York: Random House, 2011, p. 76. ISBN 978-0-375-50748-9
- Op de Coul, Martha. De Laakmolen in Den Haag door Vincent van Gogh, Oud Holland - Quarterly for Dutch Art History, Volume 104, Issue 3, pages 336 – 340, 1990, DOI: 10.1163/187501790X00183
- J.B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam, 1970, no. F 844, pp. 317 & 644 (illustrated; titled 'The Windmill' and dated 'August 1881')
- J. Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Amsterdam, 1996, no. 59, p. 24
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Fonte/Fotógrafo |
Christie's, LotFinder: registro 5915643 (venda 10334, lote 14, London, 23 June 2015) |
Outras versões |
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The Laakmolen today
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Jan Weissenbruch, The Shipping Canal at Rijswijk, known as "The View at Geestbrug" . Weissenbruch was a contemporary and early champion of Vincent's at The Hague. The mill in the painting is the Laakmolen.
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Antique photograph of the Laakmolen. Date is unknown, but the hay barn is shown as in Vincent's watercolor.
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