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Vincent van Gogh: English: Miners in the Snow at Dawn   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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)
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artist QS:P170,Q5582
Title
English: Miners in the Snow at Dawn
Description
Miners, including thrutchers (children who pushed or pulled the baskets laden with coal), going to work at dawn. Sketched at Cuesmes, Belgium, 1880.
Date 1880
date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium pencil
medium QS:P186,Q14674
institution QS:P195,Q224124
Notes
  • This is Miners in the Snow at Dawn JH Juv. 10 (no F or JH number in the main catalogues) sent with letter VGM 156 (134 in the 1958 edition. VGM notes that sclôneurs and sclôneuses ("thrutchers") were usually children who worked deep underground in the passages immediately behind a miner and dragged the coal away in baskets. Those baskets were known as sclônes in the local patois. A similar subject (and apparently the sketch referred to in letter VGM 156) is F831 JH Juv. 11 mentioned explicitly in letter VGM 157 (135 in the 1958 edition) of which this sketch is the "croquis".
  • Letter 156 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 20 August 1880. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "I’ve done a scratch of miners, male and female thrutchers, going to the pit in the morning, in the snow, on a path beside a thorn-hedge: passing shadows, dimly visible in the dusk. In the background, the large mine buildings and the slag heap are becoming indistinct against the sky. I’m sending you the croquis so that you can picture it for yourself. But I feel the need to study figure drawing from masters like Millet, Breton and Brion or Boughton, or someone else. What do you think of the croquis? Does the idea seem good to you?"
  • Letter 157 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Tuesday, 7 September 1880. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "However, I couldn’t help sketching, in fairly large dimensions, the drawing of the miners going to the pit, of which I sent you the croquis, changing the arrangement of the figures slightly."
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