Van Gogh's first commission came from his uncle C. M. van Gogh, an art dealer, for drawings of views of the Hague, where he was then living. This large view of a nursery close to Van Gogh's studio was among those he sent to his uncle in May 1882.
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Title:Nursery on Schenkweg
Artist:Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)
Date:March–May 1882
Medium:Black chalk, graphite, pen, brush, and ink, heightened with white body color on laid paper watermarked ED & CIE (in a cartouche)
Dimensions:11 5/8 x 23 1/16in. (29.6 x 58.5cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Object Number:1972.118.281
Signature: At lower left, in pen and ink: Vincent
Purchased from the artist (as part of a commission) by his uncle Cornelis Marinus Van Gogh (Dutch), Amsterdam, 1882; Galerie J. H. de Bois, until February 1914; sold (for 4,000 marks) to J. Cock (or Cook), Alkmaar; Kunstzalen d'Audretsch, The Hague; Myrtil Frank (German), The Hague and New York; Galerie J. H. de Bois, Harlem; sold to Walter C. Baker (American), New York, by 1953
Morgan Library & Museum. "Landscape Drawings and Watercolors, Bruegel to Cézanne," January 31, 1953–April 11, 1953.
Musée de l'Orangerie. "De David à Toulouse-Lautrec : Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections américaines," April 20, 1955–July 5, 1955.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Walter C. Baker Collection of Drawings," June 2–September 4, 1960.
Rijksmuseum. "Vincent van Gogh Drawings," March 30, 1990–July 29, 1990.
Kröller-Müller Museum. "Vincent van Gogh Drawings," March 30, 1990–July 29, 1990.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," November 30, 1998–February 8, 1999.
Amsterdam. Van Gogh Museum. "Van Gogh: The Drawings," July 1–September 18, 2005.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Van Gogh: The Drawings," October 12–December 31, 2005.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. "Van Gogh in Budapest," December 1, 2006–March 20, 2007.
Royal Academy of Arts. "The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and his Letters," January 23, 2010–April 18, 2010.
Columbia Museum of Art. "Van Gogh and His Inspirations," October 4, 2019–January 12, 2020.
Faille 930; Hulsker 138; Amsterdam-New York 2005, no. 8
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother. vol. 1, London, 1927, cat. no. Letter 195, p. 406.
J. B. de La Faille L'Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh. vol. 3, Paris and Brussels, 1928, cat. no. 930, fig. no. pl XXVI, ill.
Anton van Rappard, Rela van Messel, Walter Pach Letters to an artist; from Vincent van Gogh to Anton Ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885. 1936, cat. no. letters 8, 9.
Walther Vanbeselaere De Hollandsche Periode (1880-1885) in Het Werk van Vincent van Gogh. Antwerp/Amsterdam, 1937, p. 408, pp. 81, 82, 129,.
Marco Valsecchi Vincent van Gogh. Milan, 1944, fig. no. 8, ill.
Claus Virch "The Walter C. Baker Collection of Master Drawings." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 18, no. 10, New York, June 1960, fig. no. 9, pp. 316-317, ill.
Claus Virch Master Drawings in the Collection of Walter C. Baker. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962, cat. no. 112, p. 63, ill.
J. B. de La Faille The Works of Vincent van Gogh (revised and translated 1928 edition). Amsterdam, 1970, cat. no. F930, fig. no. p.344, pp. 346-347, ill.
Van Gogh's "Diary". Edited by Jan Hulsker, New York, 1971, p. 25, ill.
Jan Hulsker "A new extensive study of van Gogh's stay in The Hague (review of W.J.A. Visser, "Vincent van Gogh and The Hague" in Jaarboek, 1973, of the Historical Society 'Die Haghe')" Bulletin of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh. vol. 3, no. 2, 1974, note 3, cat. no. F930, p. 32.
W. J. A. Visser "The Florist's Garden of Van de Putte on the Schenkweg." Bulletin of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh: Vincent. vol. 3, no. 4, 1974, pp. 8-11.
Jan Hulsker Van Gogh's first and only commission as an artist Bulletin of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh: Vincent. vol. 4, 1976, captions for figs. 6 and 7 should be reversed, fig. no. 6, pp. 8, 9, 13, 14, ill.
Jan Hulsker Van Gogh en zijn weg. Amsterdam, 1977, cat. no. 138, ill.
Jan Hulsker The Complete Van Gogh. Paintings, Drawings, Sketches. New York, 1980, cat. no. 138, p. 40, ill.
Van Gogh en Den Haag. Exh. cat., Haags Historisch Museum, September 8-November 18, 1990. Michiel van der Mast, and Charles Dumas, Zwolle, 1990, pp. 35-36, 172-173.
Ronald Pickvance, Johannes van der Wolk Vincent van Gogh, Drawings Exh. cat., Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo. Milan, 1990.
Elizabeth Nicoline Heenk Van Gogh's Drawings: An Analysis of Their Production and Uses. Ph.D. dissertation, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. London, 1995, pp. 56-58.
Roland Dorn, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, John Sillevis Van Gogh und die Haager Schule. Exh. cat., Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, February 28-May 27, 1996. Milan, 1996, cat. no. 14, ill.
Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten, Marije Vellekoop, Marjorie Shelley, Silvia A. Centeno Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005, cat. no. 8, pp. 57,74-5, ill.
Judit Geskó Van Gogh in Budapest. Exh. cat., Fine Arts Museum, Budapest, December 1, 2006-March 20, 2007. Budapest, 2006, no. 8, pp. 232-233, 521, ill. p. 233.
Dr. Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Heinz Widauer, Sjraar van Heugten, Marije Vellekoop Van Gogh: Heartfelt Lines. Exh. cat., Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Sept. 5-Dec. 8. Cologne, 2008, cat. no. 5, ill.
Ann Dumas, Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, Nienke Bakker The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 23-April 18, 2010. London, 2010, cat. no. 10, ill.
Sjraar van Heugten Van Gogh and the Seasons. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2017, pp. 160-161, ill.
Will South Van Gogh & His Inspirations. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, S.C., 2019, 131, ill.
Near the end of his life, Vincent van Gogh moved from Paris to the city of Arles in southeastern France, where he experienced the most productive period of his artistic career.
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