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Above her the sky is gray and blue, a haze of clouds."},"main_reference_number":"1968.92","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1880,"date_end":1890,"date_display":"c. 1885","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853\u20131890)","place_of_origin":"Netherlands","description":"<p>Driven by the loneliness and poverty he had experienced living in the Hague, Vincent van Gogh returned to his parents\u2019 home in Nuenen, the Netherlands, in late 1883 and devoted himself entirely to painting. In Nuenen, the artist also returned to the more monochromatic palette of browns, greens, and grays that he had used in his early years in the Netherlands. He painted a series of cottages\u2014 including this painting\u2014based on his walks through the village. He described this series to his brother: \u201cI feel for the brood and the nests\u2014particularly those human nests, those cottages on the heath and their inhabitants.\u201d Van Gogh carefully infused the woman, the cottage, and the setting with the same earthy tones and the loose, directional texture of the brushstrokes. In doing so, he emphasized the way she belonged to this place, and it to her.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Driven by the loneliness and poverty he had experienced in the Hague, Vincent van Gogh returned to his parents\u2019 home in the Netherlands in 1883. There he created a series of paintings of cottages based on his walks through the village. He wrote to his brother, \"I feel for the brood and the nests\u2014particularly those human nests, those cottages on the heath and their inhabitants.\u201d","dimensions":"31.3 \u00d7 42 cm (12 5\/16 \u00d7 16 1\/2 in.); Framed: 52.1 \u00d7 62.6 \u00d7 10.8 cm (20 1\/2 \u00d7 24 5\/8 \u00d7 4 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":42,"height":31,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":10,"width":62,"height":52,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Benno J. Stokvis, Nasporingen omtrent Vincent van Gogh in Brabant (Amsterdam: Van Looy, 1926), 5-6\n\nJ[acob]-B[aart] de La Faille, L'Oeuvre de Vincent Van Gogh: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 (Paris and Brussels: G. Van Oest, 1928), 48 no. 142, pl. XXXVIII.\n\nWalther Vanbeselaere, De hollandsche periode (1880-1885) in het werk van Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) (Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1937), possibly no. 142.\n\nJ[acob]-B[aart] de La Faille, Vincent Van Gogh, trans. Prudence Montagu-Pollock (New York: French and European Publications; Paris: Hyperion, 1939), 157 no. 190 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1967-1968 (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), 16.\n\nCalendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 62, no. 4 (September 1968): cover ill., 2.\n\nJ[acob]-B[aart] de La Faille, The Works of Vincent Van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (New York: Reynal, 1970), 88 (ill.), 88 (ill), 89 no. F139, 617.\n\nPaola Lecaldano, L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh, vol. 1 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1977), 104 no. 171.","exhibition_history":"Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, Nov. 6, 1982\u2013Jan. 2, 1983, cat. 99.\n\nTokyo, Seibu Museum, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18\u2013Dec. 1, 1985, cat. 11; Kyoto, Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5\u2013Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4\u2013Apr. 13, 1986, cat. 11.\n\nVienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Van Gogh und die Haager Schule (The Early Van Gogh and the Hague School), Feb. 28\u2013May 27, 1996, cat. 78.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb. 14 - May 10, 2016, no cat. no., plate 2.","provenance_text":"The artist; his mother, Mrs. A. C. Van Gogh Carbentus, Neunen and Breda, around 1885 [ according to a letter from Martha Op de Coul, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, Netherlands, Aug. 23, 2000]; given to the carpenter, Schrauwen, Breda, 1886 [this and the following according to Stokvis  1926, 5-6]; transferred to Jan and Rien Couvreur, Breda, 1903; sold to C. Mouwen, Jr., Breda; sold, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, May 3, 1904, lot 13,  for 205 fl. to Van Gelder [according to annotated copy of sale catalogue; in curatorial object file]. Mejevrouw K. Cosman, The Hague, by June 1935 [this and the following according to La Faille, 1970, 617, and the E. J. Van Wisselingh and Co. stock book , Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie , The Hague]; sold to E. J. Van Wisselingh and Co., Amsterdam, by June 1935; sold  to Harry S. Southam, Ottawa, June 24, 1935 until about 1944 [according to letter from Michael Pantazzi, National Gallery of Canada, July 26, 2000]. E. and A. 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Ireland (died 1968), Chicago, about 1964; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":14,"fiscal_year":1968,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":false,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":19.4491,"color":{"h":43,"l":35,"s":21,"percentage":0.3863423384059929,"population":2016},"latitude":null,"longitude":null,"latlon":null,"is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 241","gallery_id":2147479705,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","department_id":"PC-10","artist_id":40610,"artist_title":"Vincent van Gogh","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[40610],"artist_titles":["Vincent van Gogh"],"category_ids":["PC-10"],"category_titles":["Painting and Sculpture of Europe"],"term_titles":["oil on canvas","Realism","oil painting","everyday life (genre)","oil paint (paint)","green (color)","brown (color)","trees","clouds","house","woman","peasants","rural life","dutch","oil paintings (visual works)","paint","canvas","paint","painting","painting","painting (image making)","painting techniques","19th century","nineteenth century","painting","european painting","work","women","weather\/seasons"],"style_id":"TM-7548","style_title":"Realism","alt_style_ids":["TM-13203","TM-15636"],"style_ids":["TM-7548","TM-13203","TM-15636"],"style_titles":["Realism","19th century","nineteenth century"],"classification_id":"TM-66","classification_title":"oil on canvas","alt_classification_ids":["TM-15692","TM-78","TM-10387","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_ids":["TM-66","TM-15692","TM-78","TM-10387","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_titles":["oil on canvas","dutch","oil paintings (visual works)","paint","painting","european painting"],"subject_id":"TM-10096","alt_subject_ids":["TM-11849","TM-11844","TM-11205","TM-11222","TM-14552","TM-13813","TM-9129","TM-12814","TM-10093","TM-8735","TM-10095"],"subject_ids":["TM-10096","TM-11849","TM-11844","TM-11205","TM-11222","TM-14552","TM-13813","TM-9129","TM-12814","TM-10093","TM-8735","TM-10095"],"subject_titles":["everyday life (genre)","green (color)","brown (color)","trees","clouds","house","woman","peasants","rural life","work","women","weather\/seasons"],"material_id":"TM-2451","alt_material_ids":["TM-3124","TM-2577","TM-13502"],"material_ids":["TM-2451","TM-3124","TM-2577","TM-13502"],"material_titles":["oil paint (paint)","canvas","paint","painting"],"technique_id":"TM-4273","alt_technique_ids":["TM-14210","TM-3891","TM-3971"],"technique_ids":["TM-4273","TM-14210","TM-3891","TM-3971"],"technique_titles":["oil painting","painting","painting (image making)","painting techniques"],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"1d3a275d-45dd-6026-b6ed-d7d8df417a3d","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":[],"sound_ids":[],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1968.92"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage"],"weight":25272,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2025-12-18T14:35:55-06:00","updated_at":"2026-06-26T10:58:30-05:00","timestamp":"2026-07-16T16:20:34-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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