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A monochrome portrait of a man with an eyepatch.

This drawn portrait in monochrome shows an older man in three-quarters view. His face is wrinkled and his hair is gray. He wears several black garments: eye patch; top hat; bow tie; waistcoat; and overcoat. On one lapel he displays a medal.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.289
People
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (Groot Zundert (Zundert), The Netherlands 1853 - 1890 Auvers-sur-Oise, France)
Title
The Wounded Veteran
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1882-1883
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296533

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, brown ink, black ink and wash, white gouache on heavily textured white wove paper
Dimensions
46 × 27.5 cm (18 1/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
framed: 62.5 × 46.4 × 1.9 cm (24 5/8 × 18 1/4 × 3/4 in.)
mat: 58.1 × 41.9 cm (22 7/8 × 16 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper left, graphite: Vincent

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Richard Bühler. [Paul Rosenberg, Paris]. [Graphisches Kabinett, Munich], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1928, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.289
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886, Constable & Co., Ltd (London, 1927), vol. 2, letter 256, p. 59
  • Jacob Baart de la Faille, L'oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh: catalogue raisonné, Les Editions G. van Oest (Paris, 1928), vol. 3, p. 42, no. 1003; vol. 4, pl. XLV
  • Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1929), no. 125, p. 136
  • Starr Figura, First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1929), no. 98, repr.
  • Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Vincent van Gogh: with an Introduction and Notes Selected from the Letters of the Artist, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1935), no. 90, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 695, fig. 366
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 40
  • Elizabeth Nicoline Heenk, "Vincent Van Gogh's Drawings: An Analysis of their Production and Uses" (Thesis, Courtauld Institute, University of London, 1995), Unpublished
  • Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches: Revised and enlarged, J. M. Meulenhoff (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1996), no. 285, repr.
  • Roland Dorn, Van Gogh Face to Face, The Portraits, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 2000), p. 67, fig. 54 (color)
  • George T.M. Shackelford, Vincent van Gogh - The Painter and the Portrait, Universe Publishing (New York, 2000), fig. 6 (color), pp. 11-14
  • Jill Shaw, Van Gogh in America, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 2022), cat. no. 6, pp. 85, 230, pl. 28

Exhibition History

  • French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/06/1929 - 04/06/1929
  • First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/01/1929 - 11/30/1929
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
  • Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 03/12/2000 - 06/04/2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/02/2000 - 09/24/2000; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 10/22/2000 - 01/14/2001
  • Van Gogh in America, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 10/02/2022 - 01/22/2023

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