Keywords: Vincent van Gogh - Church Pew with Worshippers (F967).jpg Artwork Q16863254 Creator Vincent van Gogh 1882 10 Technique watercolor paper pen pencil water color pen and pencil on ordinary wove paper with pressmark J D K De La Faille cm 28 0 38 0 Institution Kröller-Müller Museum cite book Naifeh Steven; Smith Gregory White Van Gogh The Life http //vangoghbiography com/NotesIntroduction 978-1846680106 Profile Books 2011 object history C Mensink The Hague Sale Amsterdam F Muller 12 November 1912 60 Huinck and Scherjon Art Gallery Ansterdam 1912 Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo inv nr 193-12 cat van Gogh 1970 nr 54 exhibition history First exhibited 1913 The Hague 36 credit line <gallery>Church Pew with Worshippers jpg</gallery> http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let270/letter html Van Gogh Museum http //www kmm nl/object/KM 20118 970/In-church artist Vincent 20van 20Gogh 20 281853 20- 201890 29 characteristic characteristic_type Works 20on 20paper van 0 tot 0 start 36 fromsearch 1 Kröller-Müller Museum Van Gogh catalogues 967 225 Compare sketch in http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let270/letter html letter 270 front row only The watercolor was executed at a time when Vincent had turned to depicting groups of figures such as in The State Lottery Office F970 in the hope of increasing their saleability Hulsker p 58 However he found watercolor a too demanding medium and soon abandoned it in favor of his graphic work Naifeh and Smith p 313 Hulsker lists other watercolors made in October 1888 as F1038 F982 F1091 and possibly http //www vggallery com/watercolours/p_0994 htm F994 A number of others must have been lost such as the watercolors sketched in http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let271/letter html letter 271 and http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let274/letter html letter 274 and the dozen watercolors of the potato market mentioned in http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let277/letter html letter 277 The church was probably the Bethlehemskerk since demolished in the Breedstraat the 'church of the poor' behind Slijkeinde in the Geest where the mother of Vincent's partner at the time <nowiki></nowiki>Sien Hoornink<nowiki></nowiki> had her house F942 Attendance at the church was compulsory for those receiving charity Hulsker remarks that the huddling of figures in State Lottery was certainly more successful than that in Church Pew a subject apparently beyond him Hulsker p 62 In http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let270/letter html letter 270 Vincent says that almsmen in that district were known as 'orphan men' and said he had taken on a bald deaf old orphan man with white sideboards as a model This was Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland who went on to feature in dozens of subsequent studies over the following winter months recognisable from his trademark whiskers as the second figure from the left in the back row in this watercolor http //vangoghletters org/vg/search/advanced originaltext original translation translation annotations notes essays essays bibliography bibliography other other term person_terms person_code literature_terms literature_code workofart_terms workofart_code sketch_terms sketch_code bibleref_terms bibleref_code f_number 967 jh_number periodical from 1 to 1 id_range id_type jlb_id date_from 1872-09-29 date_until 1890-07-31 period correspondent_name correspondent_id place_name place_id order date search2 x 30 search2 y 9 Letters cite web Letter 270 to Theo van Gogh The Hague on or about Sunday 1 October 1882 http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let270/letter html Vincent van Gogh The Letters Van Gogh Museum 1r 1 I ™m also working on one of a church pew that I saw in a small church in the Geest district where the almsmen go they ™re known here very expressively as ORPHAN men and orphan women sketch enclosed first row only PD-old-100 accession number 193-12 DEFAULTSORT Vincent van Gogh - Church Pew with Worshippers F967 jpg Uploaded with UploadWizard Portrait paintings by Vincent van Gogh The Hague 1882 Van Gogh Watercolor The Hague 1881-83 Works by Vincent van Gogh modelled by Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland |