Portrait of a man leaning in slightly from the right, holding a pipe in his right hand.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The man sits outside with the suggestion of a fence and garden behind him. He has thick wavy hair with a receding hairline, moustache and slight goatee, closed mouth as his hand holds the pipe, probably resting on his elbow outside the frame. His pensive eyes look past us, his eyebrows are slightly raised, with wrinkled forehead, may suggest slight weariness. He’s drawn close by, as if in conversation with us. Lines and textures form the shape of the face and jacket.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12843
People
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (Groot Zundert (Zundert), The Netherlands 1853 - 1890 Auvers-sur-Oise, France)
Title
Dr. Gachet
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Man with a Pipe
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1890
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/250876

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 18.2 x 15.2 cm (7 3/16 x 6 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Klipstein et Cie, Bern], sold [possibly through Richard Zinser, New York]; to Fogg Art Museum, 1953

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William M. Prichard Fund
Accession Year
1953
Object Number
M12843
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michel Melot, The Impressionist Print, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1996), repr. as fig. 283 on p. 248 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography]
  • Carol Solomon Kiefer, The Hanged Man: Cézanne and the Art of the Print, exh. cat., Mead Art Museum (Amherst, 1999), pp. 16-17, 59, cat. no. 47, repr. p. 16

Exhibition History

  • The Hanged Man: Cézanne and the Art of the Print, Mead Art Museum, 01/22/1999 - 03/21/1999

Verification Level

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