The only entry here from Frankfurt

The record dates Cottage and Woman with Goat to 1885, the closing year of the Nuenen period, and gives its location as the Städel in Frankfurt, which holds one work in this catalogue. A goat is named in one title out of 610, which is to say this one.

What the record gives

The canvas measures 78 by 64 centimetres, an upright and reasonably large for the period. The measured palette reads as brown.

1885, the crowded year

1885 is where the Dutch part of the chronology thickens: seventy works carry it, against twenty-five the year before. Cottages account for eight of the titles dated 1885, more than any other year; the word then returns at the very end of the decade, in seven titles dated 1890. Brown dominates thirty-one of the seventy entries — a smaller share than 1884's, and the first sign in the measurements that the plateau is ending. That is what a period boundary looks like in this catalogue: not a break, but a proportion beginning to move. The record carries no note on the building in the title or on who kept the animal, and none is supplied.