Self-Portrait with Glass
Currently on view
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, January 1887
oil on canvas, 61.1 cm x 50.2 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
In this picture, Van Gogh portrays himself sitting with a well-filled glass (of wine?) to hand. Is he in a bar? He was a habitué of Parisian cafés. Looking back, he even described himself as a problem drinker.
He regularly produced self-portraits, especially during his period in Paris. To save money, he often painted them over earlier works, as he has done here. Research has revealed a semi-nude woman under his pipe-smoking self-portrait.
- F-number
- F0263a
- JH-number
- JH1199
- Object number
- s0161V1962
- Dimensions
- 61.1 cm x 50.2 cm, 78.4 cm x 68.0 cm
- Provenance
- Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, January 1887; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, from 1927 to 1930; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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