The Zandmennik House

c. 1879/1880

Vincent van Gogh

Associated Names
Vincent van Gogh

Artist, Dutch, 1853 - 1890

This drawing depicts a row of two or three white cottages or buildings. The pointed rooftops are uneven and covered with dark chimneys. The buildings each have several doors and windows. They are oriented diagonally, and the doors face the bottom left corner of the drawing. There are some small dark bushes on the far right, but otherwise the ground is mostly empty except for a few shadows. The sky is also mostly empty. The color palette is monochromatic gray, and the drawing has been made with soft lines.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite(?) on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.8 x 29.4 cm (9 x 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.217.66

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Faille 1992, Juvenilia no. XXXIII

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Decrucq, Cuesmes; M.G. Delsaut, Cuesmes; Samuel Delsaut, Cuesmes (sold London, Christie, Manson & Woods, April 14, 1970, no. 42); Armand Hammer Collection, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1960

  • Vincent van Gogh, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 1960, 200.

  • Vincent van Gogh, Cuesmes, Belgium, 1960, 8.

1970

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1970, starting with William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971.

2015

  • Van Gogh in the Borinage: The Birth of an Artist. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, 2015, 53-54, 266, no. 41, repr. p. 118 (color).

Bibliography

1927

  • The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886, London, Boston, and New York, 1927, vol.1, pp. 225-28, letter number 137.

1959

  • Museum Journal (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), ser. 5, no. 4 (Oct. 1959): 80-81.

1969

  • Marc Edo Tralbaut, Le Mal Aimé, Lausanne, 1969, p. 63.

1970

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

1985

  • Bernard, Bruce. Vincent by Himself. London, 1985: 23.

1992

  • Faille, Jacob Baart de la. Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper. San Francisco, 1992: no. XXXIII (Juvenilia), as "La Maison de Zundemennik"

Inscriptions

lower right in charcoal: V.G.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 8502 B

Wikidata ID

Q64633805

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