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1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh

The Cows

Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	1890
Catalogue	F822 JH2095
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	55 cm × 65 cm (22 in × 26 in)
Location	Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille

The Cows is a painting by Vincent van Gogh, produced in July 1890 during his stay in Doctor Gachet's home in Auvers-sur-Oise. It is based on an 1873 Paul van Ryssel etching Gachet owned of Jacob Jordaens's Study of Five Cows, exhibited in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

The work is one of a series of copies of previous artist's works that Van Gogh painted towards the end of his life. Van Gogh's painting is also now held at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

History

The painting was made by van Gogh during his stay in Auvers-sur-Oise, with Doctor Gachet. It is a copy, like van Gogh made many, of a study by Jacob Jordaens exhibited at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille. The painting was not copied directly, but from an etching by Doctor Gachet from 1873, signed with his artist name, Paul van Ryssel.

The painting appears in the inventory of the Gachet collection made in 1903 by the German critic Julius Meier-Graefe, which he then referred to as Les Bœufs. In 1950, the son of Doctor Gachet decided to donate it to the museum of Lille, his father's birthplace, along with the engraving that inspired it. But the donation is debated within the committee responsible for ratifying donations. It opposes the curators of the Louvre to the inspection of provincial museums which considers that the work does not sufficiently reflect the genius of van Gogh to be hosted by a provincial museum and proposes to deposit it in the reserves of the Louvre. However, Paul Gachet insisted that the painting be exhibited in Lille. In 1951, it was assigned to the Louvre Museum and deposited at the Lille Museum of Fine Arts. In 1954, when the painting was exhibited at the Musée de l'Orangerie, it sparked a violent controversy over its authenticity led by a passionate van Gogh lover, Louis Anfray, and widely reported by the press. As with other works in the Gachet collection, it continued in the following years and has not yet died out, carried in particular by Benoît Landais. However, the laboratory examinations that were carried out did not reveal any clues that would make it possible to consider a fake. According to Anne Distel, it is more likely to be accepted for a minor work by van Gogh, perhaps a study for a painting he had in mind, produced in the exceptional circumstances of the end of his life in Auvers.

References

Stein, Anne (1999). Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 90–92. ISBN 9780870999031.
"The Rubel Collection". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 56 (4): 3. 1999. doi:10.2307/3269074. ISSN 0026-1521. JSTOR 3269074.
Grunert, Andrea (2007), "Vincent van Gogh au cinéma : un métatexte ? Lust for life (1955) et Vincent and Theo (1989)", Les autres arts dans l'art du cinéma, Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 63–76, doi:10.4000/books.pur.732, ISBN 9782753503885
Uitert, Evert van (2003), "Gogh, Vincent (Willem) van", Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t033020, ISBN 9781884446054, retrieved 2022-04-01
François, Stéphane (2015). Les mystères du nazisme. Presses Universitaires de France. doi:10.3917/puf.franc.2015.01. ISBN 978-2-13-062457-8.
Oursel, Hervé (1987). "Quelques œuvres du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille évoquant des fêtes et jeux traditionnels". Revue du Nord. 69 (274): 563–574. doi:10.3406/rnord.1987.4312. ISSN 0035-2624.
"The Rubel Collection". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 56 (4): 3. 1999. doi:10.2307/3269074. ISSN 0026-1521. JSTOR 3269074.

Distel, Anne; Stein, Susan Alyson (1999). Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet. The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. pp. 90–92. ISBN 9780870999031.

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Vincent van Gogh

General

Groups of
works

Early works (1881–82)
Portraits (1881–1890)
Peasant Character Studies (1881–1885)
Van Gogh's family in his art (1881–1888)
Sien (1882–83)
Cottages (1883–1885)
Water Mill at Gennep (1884)
Still life paintings, Netherlands (1884–85)
Old Church Tower at Nuenen (1884–85)
Amsterdam (1885)
Wheat Fields (1885–1890)
Le Moulin de la Galette (1886)
Still life paintings, Paris (1886–87)
Montmartre (1886–87)
Self portraits (1886–1889)
Outskirts of Paris (1887)
Asnières (1887)
Seine (1887)
Japonaiserie (1887)
Sunflowers (1887–1889)
Trees and Undergrowth (1887–1890)
Copies by Vincent van Gogh (1887–1890)
Langlois Bridge at Arles (1888)
Saintes-Maries (1888)
Boats du Rhône (1888)
Décoration for the Yellow House (1888)
The Roulin Family (1888–89)
Hospital in Arles (1888–89)
Flowering Orchards (1888–89)
Almond Blossoms (1888–1890)
Paintings of Children (1888–1890)
The Wheat Field (1889)
Reaper (1889)
Olive Trees (1889)
Wheat Fields (1889)
Butterflies (1889–90)
Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (1889–90)
Auvers size 30 canvases (1890)
Auvers Double-squares and Squares (1890)
Lost works by Vincent van Gogh
Display at Les XX, 1890

Oil paintings

1882	Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather Girl in White in the Woods Lying Cow A Girl in the Street, Two Coaches in the Background
1883	Cows in the Meadow Farmhouses Among Trees Bulb Fields Landscape with a Church at Twilight Landscape with Dunes Footbridge across a Ditch Marshy Landscape A Wind-Beaten Tree Farm with Stacks of Peat Farmhouses in Loosduinen near The Hague at Twilight Three Figures near a Canal with Windmill
1884	Two Rats Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen Landscape with Pollard Willows Cart with Black Ox Cart with Red and White Ox Lane in Autumn Water Mill at Opwetten Water Mill at Kollen Village at Sunset Avenue of Poplars in Autumn Avenue of Poplars at Sunset Head of an Old Farmer's Wife in a White Hat
1885	Still Life with Straw Hat The Potato Eaters Peasant Woman Digging Peasant Woman Digging Up Potatoes Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette
1886	Vase with Red Poppies Vase with White and Red Carnations The Kingfisher
1887	Poppy Flowers Wheat Field with a Lark View of Paris from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic Portrait of Père Tanguy A Woman Walking in a Garden Imperial Fritillaries in a Copper Vase Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin Red Cabbages and Garlic
1888	Madame Roulin and Her Baby Landscape with Snow La Mousmé The Zouave Still Life: Vase with Oleanders The Night Café The Yellow House Van Gogh's Chair Café Terrace at Night Starry Night Over the Rhône Portrait of the Artist's Mother Bedroom in Arles The Painter on the Road to Tarascon Les Alyscamps A Lane in the Public Garden at Arles Falling Autumn Leaves L'Arlésienne The Red Vineyard Memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles) Les Arènes Interior of a Restaurant in Arles A Lane near Arles Arles: View from the Wheat Fields Sunset at Montmajour Farmhouse in Provence Orchard with Cypresses
1889	Valley with Ploughman Seen from Above View of Arles, Flowering Orchards Portrait of Doctor Rey Crab on its Back Two Crabs Irises Lilac Bush The Starry Night The Gardener Self-portrait (1889) Self-portrait without beard Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul A Road at Saint-Remy with Female Figure Enclosed Field with Peasant Rain Cypresses Wheat Field with Cypresses Green Wheat Field with Cypress The Diggers The Ravine of the Peyroulets Ivy View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Rémy The Large Plane Trees The Mulberry Tree
1890	The Siesta Road with Cypress and Star At Eternity's Gate Thatched Cottages and Houses Portrait of Dr. Gachet Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers Houses at Auvers White House at Night Landscape with a Carriage and a Train Girl in White The Church at Auvers Daubigny's Garden Farms near Auvers The Cows The Town Hall at Auvers Blossoming Chestnut Branches Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses Portrait of Adeline Ravoux Plain near Auvers Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds Wheatfield with Crows Prisoners' Round (after Gustave Doré) Tree Roots Landscape at Auvers in the Rain Poppy Field

Watercolours

Boy Cutting Grass with a Sickle (1881)
Meadows near Rijswijk and the Schenkweg (1882)
The 'Laakmolen' near The Hague (1882)
Church Pew with Worshippers (1882)
Woman on Her Deathbed (1883)
Landscape with Trees (1883)
Peatery in Drenthe (1883)
Landscape with Wheelbarrow (1883)
Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam (1883)
Breton Women (1888)
Old Vineyard with Peasant Woman (1890)

Drawings

Museums

Portrayals

Family

Cataloguers

Jacob Baart de la Faille (1928 and 1970; "F")
Jan Hulsker (1978, revised 1989; "JH")

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