
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002485Tetards (Pollards)
Inscriptions
Inscribed back of mount, in blue crayon: "165" (encircled)
Provenance
Hendricus Petrus Bremmer (1871-1956), The Hague, by 1950 [The Hague 1950]. H. Bremmer, Zeist, by 1960 [Paris 1960]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Co., New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.
Exhibition history
Minneapolis, Minn., Walker Art Center, 1940. The Hague, Netherlands, Gemeentemuseum, "Verzamelingt H. P. Bremmer," Mar. 9-Apr. 23, 1950, p. 10, cat. 52 (not ill.). Dordrechts Museum, "Boom, Bloem en Plant," July 16-Aug. 31, 1955, p. 29, cat. 186 as "Knotberken" (not ill.). Munich, Haus der Kunst, "Vincent van Gogh: 1853-1890," Oct.-Dec. 1956, n.p., cat. 46 (ill.), as Die Kopfweiden, Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, "Vincent Van Gogh," Feb.-Mar. 1960, pp. 42-43, cat. 98 (ill.). Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, "Eindhoven verzamelt, van Jongkind tot Jorn," Nov. 5-Dec. 13, 1960, n.p., cat. 144; also the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Dec. 17, 1960-Jan. 30, 1961. Munich, Germany, Städtische Galerie, "Vincent van Gogh Zeichnungen und Aquarelle," May 23-June 25, 1961, cat. 35 as "Kopfweiden". Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 164-165, cat. 75 (ill.).
Publications
J. B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (Amsterdam, 1970), pp. 442- 43, no. 1240a (ill.). Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing (Lawrence King Ltd., 1991), p. 272 (ill.). J. B. de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper (San Francisco, 1992), I:317, no. 1240a, II:CCXXV (ill.). Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (Amsterdam, 1996), no. 467 (ill.). Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, 1996), p. 89 (ill.). Belinda Thomson, Van Gogh (Chicago, 2001), pp. 23, 89, and 106, pl. 2 (detail, p. 15). Sandy Brooke, Drawing as Expression, Techniques and Concepts (Upper Saddle River, 2002), p. 153 (ill.).
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
- 1884
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with touches of pen and black ink, graphite and graphite frottage, and traces of black chalk, on grayish-white paper laid down on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 33.7 × 43.8 cm (13 5/16 × 17 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Robert Allerton Fund
- Accession no.
- 1969.268
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