Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000890A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage
Provenance
The artist; his mother, Mrs. A. C. Van Gogh Carbentus, Neunen and Breda, around 1885 [ according to a letter from Martha Op de Coul, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, Netherlands, Aug. 23, 2000]; given to the carpenter, Schrauwen, Breda, 1886 [this and the following according to Stokvis 1926, 5-6]; transferred to Jan and Rien Couvreur, Breda, 1903; sold to C. Mouwen, Jr., Breda; sold, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, May 3, 1904, lot 13, for 205 fl. to Van Gelder [according to annotated copy of sale catalogue; in curatorial object file]. Mejevrouw K. Cosman, The Hague, by June 1935 [this and the following according to La Faille, 1970, 617, and the E. J. Van Wisselingh and Co. stock book , Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie , The Hague]; sold to E. J. Van Wisselingh and Co., Amsterdam, by June 1935; sold to Harry S. Southam, Ottawa, June 24, 1935 until about 1944 [according to letter from Michael Pantazzi, National Gallery of Canada, July 26, 2000]. E. and A. Silberman, New York; sold to Dr. John J. Ireland (died 1968), Chicago, about 1964; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.
Exhibition history
Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, Nov. 6, 1982–Jan. 2, 1983, cat. 99. Tokyo, Seibu Museum, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18–Dec. 1, 1985, cat. 11; Kyoto, Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986, cat. 11. Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Van Gogh und die Haager Schule (The Early Van Gogh and the Hague School), Feb. 28–May 27, 1996, cat. 78. Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb. 14 - May 10, 2016, no cat. no., plate 2.
Publications
Benno J. Stokvis, Nasporingen omtrent Vincent van Gogh in Brabant (Amsterdam: Van Looy, 1926), 5-6 J[acob]-B[aart] de La Faille, L'Oeuvre de Vincent Van Gogh: Catalogue Raisonné (Paris and Brussels: G. Van Oest, 1928), 48 no. 142, pl. XXXVIII. Walther Vanbeselaere, De hollandsche periode (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) (Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1937), possibly no. 142. J[acob]-B[aart] de La Faille, Vincent Van Gogh, trans. Prudence Montagu-Pollock (New York: French and European Publications; Paris: Hyperion, 1939), 157 no. 190 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1967-1968 (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), 16. Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 62, no. 4 (September 1968): cover ill., 2. J[acob]-B[aart] de La Faille, The Works of Vincent Van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 88 (ill.), 88 (ill), 89 no. F139, 617. Paola Lecaldano, L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh, vol. 1 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1977), 104 no. 171.
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
- c. 1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 31.3 × 42 cm (12 5/16 × 16 1/2 in.); Framed: 52.1 × 62.6 × 10.8 cm (20 1/2 × 24 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland
- Accession no.
- 1968.92
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