The record dates Plaster Statuette of a Horse to 1886, the opening year of the Paris period in this catalogue's chronology. Five titles here name a plaster statuette: four dated 1886 and one dated 1887. The type exists in this catalogue only inside those two years, which is as close as a list of titles comes to marking a change of working conditions.
The work is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds nineteen of the sixty-one works dated 1886. No dimensions are recorded. The measured palette reads as yellow.
The other three 1886 statuette titles name a female torso, a male torso and a kneeling man; the 1887 one places a statuette in a still life with a rose and two novels. Five entries, one object type, two consecutive years, then nothing. In a catalogue arranged by subject those five would scatter across sculpture, still life and animal painting; arranged by date they form a single visible episode of the Paris period. The record supports the grouping and says nothing about the plasters themselves, where they came from, or how long they stayed.
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [หvษชnsษnt หสษชlษษฑ vษล หษฃษx] ; 30 March 1853 โ 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he c
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High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
Louie Drehmer, Curator, Vincent van Gogh Paintings
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Plaster Statuette of a Horse is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1886, held at Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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