This painting dates from the winter of 1887, roughly a year after Vincent van Gogh arrived in Paris to join his brother, the art dealer Theo van Gogh. It is one of a group of landscapes featuring the Butte Montmartre, a short climb from the apartment on the rue Lepic where Vincent and Theo lived. Montmartre was dotted with reminders of its quickly receding rural past\u2014abandoned quarries, kitchen gardens, and three surviving windmills, including the Moulin de Blute-Fin. The nonfunctional mill had become a tourist attraction, affording spectacular panoramic views over Paris from the observation tower erected beside it.<\/p>\n","short_description":"This painting dates to 1887, roughly a year after Van Gogh arrived in Paris to join his brother, the art dealer Theo van Gogh. It is one of a group of landscapes featuring the Butte Montmartre, a short climb from the apartment on the rue Lepic where Vincent and Theo lived. Montmartre was dotted with reminders of its quickly receding rural past\u2014abandoned quarries, kitchen gardens, and three surviving windmills, including the Moulin de Blute-Fin.","dimensions":"43.6 \u00d7 33 cm (17 1\/8 \u00d7 13 in.); Framed: 61 \u00d7 50.8 \u00d7 7 cm (24 \u00d7 20 \u00d7 2 3\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":33,"height":43,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":7,"width":50,"height":61,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas, mounted on pressboard","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection","catalogue_display":"
Faille, de la 272<\/p>
Hulsker 1183<\/p>
Hulsker 370<\/p>","publication_history":"Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1926), 8, pl. 9.\n\nJacob-Baart de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 136-37 (ill.), no. F272.\n\nGloria Groom and Douglas Druick, et. al., The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 119 (ill.), no. 54.\n\nJames H. Rubin, \u201cDas Impressionistische Stadtbild als Emblem der Moderne,\u201d in Bilder einer Metropole: Die Impressionisten in Paris, exh. cat. (Essen: Museum Folkwang; G\u00f6ttingen: Steidl, 2010), 79-80, 81. \n\nGloria Groom, ed., Van Gogh's Bedrooms, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2016), 8, plate 4.\n\nMartin Bailey, \"Bought for around $1,000, now worth $10m: where was the newly unveiled Van Gogh landscape hidden away?\" The Art Newspaper, February 26, 2021. Jill Shaw, ed., Van Gogh in America, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), 25, 53-54, 82, 148, 227n67, 228n131, 228n141, 233 cat. 21.","exhibition_history":"Possibly Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Tentoonstelling van schilderijen en teekeningen door Vincent van Gogh, July 15 - Sep. 1, 1905, cat. 40. [This entry simply reads \u201cMontmartre\u201d and could possibly be another work.]\n\nLondon, Ernest Brown & Philips, The Leicester Galleries, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Dec. 1923, cat 18.\n\nMinneapolis Institute of Art, 1925.\n\nBoston Arts Club, 1926.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1\u2013Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 380.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1\u2013Nov. 1, 1934 , cat. 313.\n\nNew York, Wildenstein Gallery, The Art and Life of Vincent van Gogh: Loan Exhibition in Aid of American and Dutch War Relief, Oct. 6\u2013Nov. 17, 1943.\n\nCleveland Museum of Art, Sep. 1948.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh paintings and drawings. A special loan exhibition, Oct. 15, 1949\u2013Jan. 15, 1950, cat. 46; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1-Apr. 16, 1950.\n\nHouston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Vincent van Gogh, Feb. 4\u201325, 1951, cat. 3.\n\nAndover, MA, Addison Gallery of Art, Variations, Three Centuries of Painting, Jan. 8\u2013Feb. 15, 1954.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Vincent Van Gogh \u00e0 Paris, Feb. 2\u2013May 2, 1988, cat. 20.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, Sep. 22, 2001-Jan. 13, 2002; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Feb. 9- June 2, 2002.\n\nWashington, D.C., The National Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, Mar. 20 - June 12, 2005; Art Institute of Chicago, July 16-Oct. 10, 2005.\n\nCompton Verney, Warwick, England, Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors, Mar. 31- June 18, 2006; Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, July 7- Sep. 24, 2006.\n\nFort Worth, TX, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 54 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb.14 - May 10, 2016, no cat. no., plate 4.\n\nDetroit Institute of Art, Van Gogh and America, Oct. 2, 2022 - Jan. 22, 2023, cat. 21.","provenance_text":"The artist\u2019s sister in law, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (died 1925), Amsterdam [this and the following according to Van Gogh-Bonger\u2019s account book: \"101\/17 1\/1924 'landschapje op Montmartre\/lantaarn' 2500 [guilders] reproduced in Stolwijk and Veenenbos 2002, 136, 165]; sold to Mrs. Elizabeth Carstairs (n\u00e9e Stebbins, died 1949), London, Dec. 1923 for 2,500 guilders; sold through Ernest Brown and Philips (Leicester Galleries), London to M. 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