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Vincent van Gogh: Self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh

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Alternative names	Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description	Dutch painter, draftsperson and printmaker
Date of birth/death	30 March 1853	29 July 1890
Location of birth/death	Zundert	Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period	between circa 1880 and circa July 1890 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Netherlands (Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886 date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority file	: Q5582 VIAF: 9854560 ISNI: 0000000120955689 ULAN: 500115588 LCCN: n79022935 NLA: 35130087 WorldCat

Title

Self-portrait

Part of

Self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh

Object type

painting

Genre

self-portrait

Depicted people

Vincent van Gogh

Date

1889

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 57.7 cm (22.7 in); width: 44.5 cm (17.5 in)

Collection

National Gallery of Art

	Native name	National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
	Location	Washington, D.C., United States
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 29″ N, 77° 01′ 12″ W
	Established	17 March 1941
	Website	www.nga.gov
	Authority file	: Q214867 VIAF: 3064149198328574940008 ISNI: 0000000123753994 ULAN: 500115983 LCCN: n79054426 NAID: 10479068 WorldCat

Current location

West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 83

Accession number

1998.74.5

Place of creation

asylum of Saint–Paul–de–Mausole in Saint–Rémy

Object history

1904: J.J. Isaacson [1859-1942], The Hague. Hugo Tutein Nolthenius [1863-1944], Delft^[1]
1945: Private Collection, Switzerland^[2]
9 June 1947 (M. Knoedler & Co., New York) sold to Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, New York;^[3]
gift 1998 to NGA.

↑ According to J. B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, rev. ed., Amsterdam, 1970: F626, the painting was lent by Nolthenius to a 1904 exhibition in Rotterdam. Thea Sternheim, wife of the German playwright Carl Sternheim, writes in her diary that they saw the portrait on exhibition in Rotterdam in 1910, lent by Tutein Nolthenius. The painting is still as in the Nothenius collection in the 1939 edition of J. B. de la Faille's book. This owner also lent the painting to exhibitions in Rotterdam in 1927, London in 1929, Amsterdam in 1930, and Delft in 1941. Nolthenius' collection was dispersed by his heirs following his death in 1944. An appraisal of the collection dated February 1944 included the Self Portrait with the annotation "sold" (copy, documentation center, van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)
↑ The painting was included in a 1945 exhibition of works lent from private collections in Switzerland held at the Galerie Schulthess, Basel. It was also exhibited in the Kunsthalle Bern in 1946 as from a private collection from Bern.
↑ Acquisition date and source according to Whitney records in NGA curatorial files

Exhibition history

Van Gogh and Britain, Tate Britain

Credit line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney

References

Catalogues raisonnés:

F626: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 626 .
JH1770 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 1770.

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Camera location	38° 53′ 28.58″ N, 77° 00′ 59.51″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	38.891271; -77.016531

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Author	Gogh, Vincent van
Image title	Painting; oil on canvas; overall: 57.79 × 44.5 cm (22 3/4 × 17 1/2 in.)framed: 82.9 x 69.2 x 6.7 cm (32 5/8 x 27 1/4 x 2 5/8 in.);
Short title	Self-Portrait

[1] According to J. B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, rev. ed., Amsterdam, 1970: F626, the painting was lent by Nolthenius to a 1904 exhibition in Rotterdam. Thea Sternheim, wife of the German playwright Carl Sternheim, writes in her diary that they saw the portrait on exhibition in Rotterdam in 1910, lent by Tutein Nolthenius. The painting is still as in the Nothenius collection in the 1939 edition of J. B. de la Faille's book. This owner also lent the painting to exhibitions in Rotterdam in 1927, London in 1929, Amsterdam in 1930, and Delft in 1941. Nolthenius' collection was dispersed by his heirs following his death in 1944. An appraisal of the collection dated February 1944 included the Self Portrait with the annotation "sold" (copy, documentation center, van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)

[2] The painting was included in a 1945 exhibition of works lent from private collections in Switzerland held at the Galerie Schulthess, Basel. It was also exhibited in the Kunsthalle Bern in 1946 as from a private collection from Bern.

[3] Acquisition date and source according to Whitney records in NGA curatorial files

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