Wikimedia Commons

File:The "Laakmolen" Near The Hague .jpg

Original file ‎(1,899 × 1,263 pixels, file size: 1.1 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

Vincent van Gogh: The 'Laakmolen' near The Hague  wikidata:Q20735378 reasonator:Q20735378
Artist
Vincent van Gogh  (1853–1890)  wikidata:Q5582 s:en:Author:Vincent van Gogh q:en:Vincent van Gogh
 
Vincent van Gogh
Alternative names
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 30 March 1853 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1890 Edit this at Wikidata
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
artist QS:P170,Q5582
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The "Laakmolen" Near The Hague
label QS:Len,"The "Laakmolen" Near The Hague"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date Summer 1882
date QS:P571,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720564
Medium gouache, watercolor, charcoal, pen and India ink on paper
Dimensions height: 37.7 cm (14.8 in); width: 56 cm (22 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,37.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,56U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object location
52° 04′ 04″ N, 4° 19′ 57″ E Edit this at Structured Data on Commons Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Place of creation The Hague
Object history Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Rotterdam
F.W.R. Wentges, The Hague (acquired by 1909)
Mrs. M.A.R. van der Leeuw-Wentges, The Hague (acquired by 1930)
Private Collection (by descent from the above and until 1984)
Private Collection, Europe (sold: Sotheby’s, New York, May 15, 1984, lot 24)
Eastlake Gallery Inc., New York
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, United States (acquired in 2012)
Private Collection, United States (acquired in 2014 and sold: Christie's, London, June 23, 2015, lot 14)
Acquired at the above sale
Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 2020, lot 20
Exhibition history Amsterdam, E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Vincent van Gogh: Aquarelles & Dessins de l’époque 1881-85, Provenant de Collections Particulières Néerlandaises, 1961, no. 1
Notes
  • Catalogues raisonnés:
  • F884: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 884 .
  • JH59 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no.  59.
  • Both Hulsker and De La Faille place the work as done at Etten around October 1881. Hulsker notes that the work is not mentioned anywhere and is difficult to place. Christie's, following Martha Op de Coul [1990], date the watercolor as done later in summer 1882 after van Gogh had moved to The Hague. The mill is identified as the Laakmolen, a well known mill on the way to Rijswijk, at that time a village near The Hague (see letter 11 n. 15). Here you could get milk to drink (a sign Melk te koop "milk for sale") is visible in the watercolor). If the mill is indeed the Laakmolen, then the watercolor assumes considerable popular interest because in the summer of 1872 (i.e. some ten years earlier), Vincent's brother Theo had come to visit Vincent at The Hague and together they had walked to a mill at Rijswijk (presumed to be the Laakmolen, one of just two at Rijswijk) where they drank milk together. It seems this walk held special emotional significance for Vincent, as he later referred to it several times in his letters to Theo. Biographers have suggested that at this time they made a pact together to pursue a career in art (Naifeh et al., p. 76 n. 187).
  • There is an article in the Dutch wikipedia on the Laakmolen here. The mill's geolocation is 52°4′4.16″N 4°19′56.98″E / 52.0678222°N 4.3324944°E / 52.0678222; 4.3324944
References
Source/Photographer Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 2020, lot 20
Other versions
  • The Laakmolen today
    The Laakmolen today
  • Jan Weissenbruch, The Shipping Canal at Rijswijk, known as "The View at Geestbrug" . Weissenbruch was a contemporary and early champion of Vincent's at The Hague. The mill in the painting is the Laakmolen.
    Jan Weissenbruch, The Shipping Canal at Rijswijk, known as "The View at Geestbrug" . Weissenbruch was a contemporary and early champion of Vincent's at The Hague. The mill in the painting is the Laakmolen.
  • Antique photograph of the Laakmolen. Date is unknown, but the hay barn is shown as in Vincent's watercolor.
    Antique photograph of the Laakmolen. Date is unknown, but the hay barn is shown as in Vincent's watercolor.

Licensing edit

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

The author died in 1890, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current11:40, 11 January 2022Thumbnail for version as of 11:40, 11 January 20221,899 × 1,263 (1.1 MB)Trzęsacz (talk | contribs)same source; https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/impressionist-modern-contemporary-art-an-evening-sale/the-laakmolen-near-the-hague
02:49, 5 December 2020Thumbnail for version as of 02:49, 5 December 2020800 × 551 (133 KB)Frypie (talk | contribs){{artwork | artist =Vincent Van Gogh | title=The "Laakmolen" Near The Hague | inscriptions = | medium =Gouache, watercolor, charcoal and pen and ink on paper | dimensions = 14¾ by 22 in. 37.5 by 56 cm |source =https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/impressionist-modern-contemporary-art-an-evening-sale/the-laakmolen-near-the-hague |Accession number = |institution = |notes = |credit line = }} Category:Vincent van Gogh

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_%22Laakmolen%22_Near_The_Hague_.jpg&oldid=788448783"