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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Head of a Peasant Woman, Left Profile

Details
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Head of a Peasant Woman, Left Profile
black chalk on paper
13 5/8 x 8¼in. (34.6 x 21cm.)
Drawn in Nuenen, February-March, 1885
Provenance
Vincent W. van Gogh, Laren
Mrs. Visser Omes, Amsterdam
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam (acquired by the present owners, 1958)
Literature
W. Vanbeselaere, De Hollandsche periode (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, 1937, pp. 265 and 411 J.-B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam, 1970, no. F1169 (illustrated)
J. Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, New York, 1977, no. 631 (illustrated, p. 141)
Exhibited
Amsterdam, E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Maîtres Français du XIXieme et XXieme Siècles, June-Aug., 1958, no. 17 Dallas, Museum of Art, on extended loan (1989-1997)
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Lot Essay

Hulsker (op. cit., pp. 138 and 140) has identified the anonymous model in the present study as the same young woman who posed for the drawing in lot 336, which was probably done slightly earlier. See note to the preceding lot.