Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses



Vincent van Gogh - Wheat Field with Cypresses



Vincent van Gogh
Wheat Field with Cypresses
1889
73 x 93.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1993


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
F 717
JH 1756

Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, p. 497 info
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 159

Literature
Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger, Vincent van Gogh, Köln, 1993, p. 523
Klaus Albrecht Schröder and Heinz Widauer, Sjraar van Heugten und Marije Vellekoop (eds.), Van Gogh, Köln; Wien, 2008, p. 62, fig. 14, p. 374, fig. 1
Martin Bailey, Starry Night, London, 2018, fig. 71


Exhibitions

2005 Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings, Nr. 111

Provenance

the artist's brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris, 1889–died 1891, sent to him by the artist on 28 September 1889
his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam, in trust for their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, 1891–1900, sold through Julien Leclercq, Paris, to Schuffenecker
Émile Schuffenecker, 1900–at least 1901
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Wagram, Paris, c. 1906–1910, sold, through Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, in November to Cassirer
with Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1910, sold in November or December 1910 to Mendelssohn
Franz von Mendelssohn, Berlin, 1910–died 1935
von Mendelssohn family, Germany, later Switzerland, 1935–51, sold through Fritz Nathan to Bührle
Emil Bührle, Zurich, 1951–died 1956
his son, Dieter Bührle, Zurich, 1956–93, sold to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1993.132

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