The Harvest, 1888

Not on View

Medium

reed pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 31.7 x 24.2 cm (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Faille 1992, no. 1491 (as _Arles: View from the Wheat Fields_, present owner unknown)

Accession Number

1985.64.91

Artists / Makers

Vincent van Gogh (artist) Dutch, 1853 - 1890

Image Use

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Provenance

Henri Matisse, Paris; (Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris); Charles Boyer; (Pierre Matisse Art Gallery, New York?)[1]; (E. Coe Kerr Gallery, New York); purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, April 1969; gift to NGA, 1985.

[1.] According to Faille, Pierre Matisse Gallery was the last known owner. An editor's note under no. 1491 comments that the gallerie "denies... ever having owned or handled this particular work."

Associated Names

Coe Kerr Gallery
Matisse Gallery, Pierre
Matisse, Henri
Mellon, Paul
Vollard, Ambroise

Exhibition History

1905: Exposition Retrospective, Salon des Independents, Paris, 24 March-30 April 1905, no. 30.

1986: Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist, repro.

2006: "Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat", Dallas Museum of Art, 2006-2007, no. 26.

2016: In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1970: Faille, Jacob Baart de la. The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings. Revised ed. Amsterdam, 1970: no. 1491.

1984: Pickvance, Ronald. Van Gogh in Arles. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984: 82.

1992: Faille, Jacob Baart de la. Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper. San Francisco, 1992: no. 1491 and Plate CLXVII

2001: The Berggruen Collection, auction catalogue, Phillips, New York, 7 May 2001, under no. 44, p. 47, fig. 4.