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Vincent van Gogh: The Potato Eaters

Artist



Alternative names	Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description	Dutch painter, draftsperson and printmaker
Date of birth/death	30 March 1853	29 July 1890
Location of birth/death	Zundert	Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period	between circa 1880 and circa July 1890 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Netherlands (Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886 date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority file	: Q5582 VIAF: 9854560 ISNI: 0000000120955689 ULAN: 500115588 LCCN: n79022935 NLA: 35130087 WorldCat

Title

Dutch:

De Aardappeleters

The Potato Eaters

Object type

painting

Genre

Naturalism

Depicted people

Date

Nuenen, April 1885

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 82 cm (32.2 in); width: 114 cm (44.8 in)

Collection

Van Gogh Museum

	Native name	Van Gogh Museum
	Location	Amsterdam , Netherlands
	Coordinates	52° 21′ 30″ N, 4° 52′ 52″ E
	Established	1973
	Website	www.vangoghmuseum.nl
	Authority file	: Q224124 VIAF: 157780694 ISNI: 000000040369348X ULAN: 500275558 LCCN: nr96012202 NLA: 35453019 WorldCat

Current location

Amsterdam

Accession number

s0005V1962 (Van Gogh Museum)

Place of creation

Nuenen

Credit line

Vincent van Gogh Stichting

Notes

Catalogues raisonnés:
F82: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 82 .
JH764 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 764.
Created in Nuenen, The Netherlands.
"By first practising a striking drawning technique, Van Gogh was able to employ a robust manner in the painting to convey in the hands and heads the character that resulted from the peasant's hard life. [...] Van Gogh's accomplishments as a draughtsman are truly translated into oil paint here." (quoted source, p.36, by Sjaar van Heugten).

References

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
vangoghgallery.com
ISBN 978-3-8321-9158-0 p.38, Section Van Gogh's Drawings and Paintings by Sjaar van Heugten, chief curator of VGM.

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Source/Photographer

Van Gogh Museum

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	19:03, 12 July 2014	3,543 × 2,517 (1.45 MB)	Coat of Many Colours	High resolution image from Vincent van Gogh Museum
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