1882, and a size recorded to the hundredth

The record dates Iron Mill in The Hague to 1882, the year before this catalogue's first period opens at Nuenen. Of the thirteen works dated 1882 here, only two carry a recorded size at all, and this is one of them: 58.42 by 35.88 centimetres. The two decimal places are the record's, not a conversion made on this page, and they are worth leaving alone.

What the record gives

The location is given as a private collection — the category that covers 118 of the 610 works in this catalogue, second only to the Van Gogh Museum. The measured palette reads as brown and yellow.

The same noun, two countries apart

Mills run through this catalogue in twenty-six titles, but they are not one subject. This 1882 entry names an iron mill in The Hague; five of the six titles using the French word are dated 1886, and they belong to Montmartre. Between the two lies the move that the Paris period is named for. The record supports the count and the dates; it says nothing about what the painter was doing at either building, and this page does not fill that in.