The Carrot Puller

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1885

Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Title: The Carrot Puller
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1885
Medium: Black chalk, with stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in graphite: "arracheuse de carottes (hiver)" [not in Van Gogh‘s hand]; verso, lower center, in graphite: "53 1/2 x 43"
Dimensions: 52.5 × 42.2 cm (20 11/16 × 16 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.697
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Ambroise Vollard, Recollections of a Picture Dealer (London, 1936), p. 64.
J. B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (Amsterdam, 1970), p. 577, no. 1690 (ill.).
Jan Hulsker, The New Complete van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (Amsterdam, 1996), pp. 190–91, no. 845 (ill.).
James N. Wood and Debra N. Mancoff, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 209 (ill.).
Belinda Thomson, Van Gogh (Chicago, 2001), pp. 28, 90, and 106, pl. 3.

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, December 9, 1967–March 29, 1968.
Waltham, Mass., Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, “50 Drawings by 50 Modern Masters,” February 22–April 5,1970.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 116, cat. 79 (ill.).

Sold by Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939), Paris, to Adrien Hébrard (1865–1937), July 1906 [letter from Marcel Guiot in curatorial file]; by descent to Mme. Hébrard [notes in curatorial file]. Sold by Marcel Guiot (1893–1977), Paris, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, April 1965 [collector notes]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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