Vincent van Gogh

The Flowering Orchard



Vincent van Gogh - The Flowering Orchard



Vincent van Gogh
The Flowering Orchard
1888
72.4 x 53.3 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: Vincent
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund


Literature


Catalogues raisonnés
F 552
JH 1381

Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, p. 494 info

Literature
Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger, Vincent van Gogh, Köln, 1993, p. 321
Cornelia Homburg (ed.), Van Gogh, New Haven and London, 2012, fig. 102


Exhibitions


2012 Becoming Van Gogh, Nr. 78

Provenance


the artist's brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris, 1888–died 1891, sent to him by the artist on or about 7 May 1888
his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam, from 1891
with Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Rotterdam, 1904
H.P. Bremmer, The Hague, 1904–55, on loan to the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, from 1924
with E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, 1955
with Wildenstein, New York, 1955–56, sold to MMA

External links


Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 56.13

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