
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000869Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre
Provenance
The artist’s sister in law, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (died 1925), Amsterdam [this and the following according to Van Gogh-Bonger’s account book: "101/17 1/1924 'landschapje op Montmartre/lantaarn' 2500 [guilders] reproduced in Stolwijk and Veenenbos 2002, 136, 165]; sold to Mrs. Elizabeth Carstairs (née Stebbins, died 1949), London, Dec. 1923 for 2,500 guilders; sold through Ernest Brown and Philips (Leicester Galleries), London to M. Knoedler Art Gallery, Paris, Jan. 1924 for £300 [this and the following according to Knoedler Stock Book, no. 15822, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]; sold to Frederic Clay Bartlett (died 1953) and Helen Birch Bartlett (died 1925), New York, Aug. 1924, for £400; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.
Exhibition history
Possibly Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Tentoonstelling van schilderijen en teekeningen door Vincent van Gogh, July 15 - Sep. 1, 1905, cat. 40. [This entry simply reads “Montmartre” and could possibly be another work.] London, Ernest Brown & Philips, The Leicester Galleries, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Dec. 1923, cat 18. Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1925. Boston Arts Club, 1926. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 380. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934 , cat. 313. New York, Wildenstein Gallery, The Art and Life of Vincent van Gogh: Loan Exhibition in Aid of American and Dutch War Relief, Oct. 6–Nov. 17, 1943. Cleveland Museum of Art, Sep. 1948. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh paintings and drawings. A special loan exhibition, Oct. 15, 1949–Jan. 15, 1950, cat. 46; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1-Apr. 16, 1950. Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Vincent van Gogh, Feb. 4–25, 1951, cat. 3. Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of Art, Variations, Three Centuries of Painting, Jan. 8–Feb. 15, 1954. Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Vincent Van Gogh à Paris, Feb. 2–May 2, 1988, cat. 20. Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, Sep. 22, 2001-Jan. 13, 2002; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Feb. 9- June 2, 2002. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, Mar. 20 - June 12, 2005; Art Institute of Chicago, July 16-Oct. 10, 2005. Compton Verney, Warwick, England, Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors, Mar. 31- June 18, 2006; Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, July 7- Sep. 24, 2006. Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 54 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb.14 - May 10, 2016, no cat. no., plate 4. Detroit Institute of Art, Van Gogh and America, Oct. 2, 2022 - Jan. 22, 2023, cat. 21.
Publications
Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1926), 8, pl. 9. Jacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 136-37 (ill.), no. F272. Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, et. al., The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 119 (ill.), no. 54. James H. Rubin, “Das Impressionistische Stadtbild als Emblem der Moderne,” in Bilder einer Metropole: Die Impressionisten in Paris, exh. cat. (Essen: Museum Folkwang; Göttingen: Steidl, 2010), 79-80, 81. Gloria Groom, ed., Van Gogh's Bedrooms, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2016), 8, plate 4. Martin Bailey, "Bought for around $1,000, now worth $10m: where was the newly unveiled Van Gogh landscape hidden away?" The Art Newspaper, February 26, 2021. Jill Shaw, ed., Van Gogh in America, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), 25, 53-54, 82, 148, 227n67, 228n131, 228n141, 233 cat. 21.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
- Date
- Early 1887
- Medium
- Oil on canvas, mounted on pressboard
- Dimensions
- 43.6 × 33 cm (17 1/8 × 13 in.); Framed: 61 × 50.8 × 7 cm (24 × 20 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- Post-Impressionism
- Place
- Paris
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1926.202
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