Vincent van Gogh
Peasant woman, peeling potatoes, three-quarter length
188541 x 31.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967
Related works
Recto:
Vincent van Gogh
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat
1887
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat
1887
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
F 365r
JH 654
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, p. 494
Literature
Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger, Vincent van Gogh, Köln, 1993, p. 83
Provenance
private collection, Asnières (possibly comtesse Clara Levaillant de La Boissière and her daughter Eugénie Jeanne Levaillant de La Boissière, Asnières, later elsewhere), gift of the artist ca. 1887–88
sold by 1927, reportedly through an intermediary, to Charpentier
with Galerie Charpentier, Paris, until 1927, sold through Bogdanoff to Bammann
with Galerie Hans Bammann, Düsseldorf, from 1927
with Justin K. Thannhauser, Berlin and New York
Adelaide Milton de Groot, New York, by 1936–d. 1967
on loan to MMA, 1936
Other works by Vincent van Gogh
Weaver, interior with three small windows
1884
1884
Cart with red and white ox
1884
1884
The Spinner
1889
1889
Man stooping with stick or spade
1882
1882
Peasant woman, peeling potatoes, seen against the window
1885
1885