Farming Village at Twilight

Farming Village at Twilight

SK-A-3307

Gezicht op een dorp in de avond. Aan de rand van een weiland, tussen bomen, staan verschillende lage huizen met rieten daken. In het midden staan twee figuren voor een hooiberg.

painter: Vincent van Gogh

1884

oil on canvas

height 57 cm x width 82 cm

Gift of Mr and Mrs Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle op den Bosch

gift 1940-03

Public domain

Inv.;…; sale, Machiel Gieseler (1859-1923, The Hague), Amsterdam (A. Mak), 27 October 1925, no. 32, bought in at fl. 1,700;{Copy RKD.} sale, Machiel Gieseler (1859 - 1923, The Hague) part II et al. [his section], Amsterdam (A. Mak), 11 May 1926, no. 44, bought in at fl. 1,250;{Copy RKD.}…; the dealer d’Audretsch, The Hague, 1930 - ?1937;{Het Vaderland: staat- en letterkundig nieuwsblad, 30-09-1930, p. 9; Van Uitert 1987, p. 208, no. 76; Vanbeselaere 1937, p. 299, no. 190.}…; the dealer Unger en Van Mens, Rotterdam;{Van Uitert 1987, p. 208, no. 76.}…; collection Dominicus Antonius Josephus Kessler (1855-1939) and Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann (1868-1947), Kapelle op den Bosch, near Mechelen;{Note RMA.} donated, with xx other objects, by Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann to the museum, 1940

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