1965.289: The Wounded Veteran

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

Permissions

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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Gogh's Drawings: An Analysis of their Production and Uses" (Thesis, Courtauld Institute, University of London, 1995), Unpublished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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