Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
A studio object, dated to Paris
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.
What the record gives
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.
Why four objects in one year matters
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.
Sources
2 references- Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] ; 30 March 1853 – 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
- WLANL - MicheleLovesArt - Van Gogh Museum - Plaster figure of a horse, 1886 — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
