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Who inspired Van Gogh to paint cows?
Vincent van Gogh painted ‘Cows’ in 1890 based on a 1873 Paul van Ryssel etching that Gachet owned of Jacob Jordaens's 'Study of Five Cows’. 1,5 years before Van Gogh saw the 1648 painting 'Cows in the pasture’ by Paulus Potter in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.
"My dear Theo, Yesterday Gauguin and I went to Montpellier to see the museum there, and especially the Bruyas room — there are many portraits of Bruyas, by Delacroix, by Ricard, by Courbet, by Cabanel, by Couture, by Verdier, by Tassaert, by others too. After that there are paintings by Delacroix, Courbet, Giotto, Paul Potter, Botticelli, T. Rousseau, very fine.”
Cows
Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890
Oil on canvas
55 cm × 65 cm
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille
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Today 133 years ago, on 17 or 18 December 1888,
Vincent van Gogh to Theo from Arles:"My dear Theo, Yesterday Gauguin and I went to Montpellier to see the museum there, and especially the Bruyas room — there are many portraits of Bruyas, by Delacroix, by Ricard, by Courbet, by Cabanel, by Couture, by Verdier, by Tassaert, by others too. After that there are paintings by Delacroix, Courbet, Giotto, Paul Potter, Botticelli, T. Rousseau, very fine.”
Cows
Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890
Oil on canvas
55 cm × 65 cm
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille
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Our hand-painted reproduction of Van Gogh's 'Cows'
Your daily dose of Van Gogh.
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