Landscape with Bog Trunks (Travaux aux Champs)

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch (worked in France), 1853–1890)

October, 1883

Medium/TechniqueGraphite with pen and brown ink

DimensionsSheet: 34.3 x 42.4 cm (13 1/2 x 16 11/16 in.)
Framed: 53 x 59.7 cm (20 7/8 x 23 1/2 in.)

Credit LineGift of John Goelet

Accession number1975.375

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ClassificationsDrawings

Collections

Provenance1885, among the drawings left by the artist in Neunen; 1886, packed and stored with Adrianus Schrauwen (b. 1834 - d. 1920), Breda; 1902, sold by Schrauwen to Johannis Cornelis Couvreur (b. 1876 - d. 1961), Breda; sold by Couvreur to Kees Mouwen (b. 1853 - d. 1913/1914), Breda; 1903, exhibited by Mouwen at Kunsthandel Oldenzeel, Rotterdam [see note 1] and sold, probably to Hugo Tutein Nolthenius (b. 1863 - d. 1944), Delft. Mettes and Co., The Hague. G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar Kunsthandel, The Hague. M. Frank, New York. 1975, gift of John Goelet, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 10, 1975)

NOTES:
[1] Martha Op de Coul, "In search of Van Gogh's Nuenen studio: the Oldenzeel exhibitions of 1903," Van Gogh Museum Journal, 2002.