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Drawing, Bateaux de sable à quai (Sand Barges Moored at the Quay), Arles
This is a Drawing. It was created by Vincent Van Gogh. It is dated August 14, 1888 and we acquired it in 1960. Its medium is reed pen and brown ink, graphite on cream wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Edith Wetmore.
It is credited Gift of Miss Edith Wetmore.
Its dimensions are
Sheet: 48.9 x 59.4 cm (19 1/4 x 23 3/8 in.) Frame H x W x D: 79 x 89.5 x 4.5 cm (31 1/8 x 35 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: "J. Whatman/Turkey Mill/1879" parallel to lower edge near the left corner, The mark reads from left to right in the lower right corner recto: lower line: Turkey Mill, upper line: J. Whatman, lowest line 1879. This could be the paper used for drawings of Montmajour (Heenk, Liesbeth, "Revealing van Gogh: An Examination of his Papers," The Paper Conservator, vol. 18 (1994), pp. 30,31.[kb]) (This essay is based on Heenk's dissertation/Courtauld Inst.[kb])
It is inscribed
Verso:upper right in pen and gray-brown ink: No 3 Verso:upper left in graphite 4789[also an inscription which has been erased and is illegible
Cite this object as
Drawing, Bateaux de sable à quai (Sand Barges Moored at the Quay), Arles; Vincent Van Gogh (The Netherlands, active in France, 1853 – 1890); France; reed pen and brown ink, graphite on cream wove paper; Sheet: 48.9 x 59.4 cm (19 1/4 x 23 3/8 in.) Frame H x W x D: 79 x 89.5 x 4.5 cm (31 1/8 x 35 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.); Gift of Miss Edith Wetmore; 1960-232-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Van Gogh/Antonin Artaud Le suicide de la société.
