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 1970, no. 1491

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; (E. Coe Kerr Gallery, New York); purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, April 1969; gift to NGA, 1985.

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.

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

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