Provenance

Van Gogh Collection Histories

Verified routes through which selected Van Gogh works were preserved, collected and made available for viewing.

Collection history

  1. 1899

    The first Van Gogh enters a museum collection

    In 1899, Hidde Nijland gave Peasant Woman (F1270) to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The gift made it the first Van Gogh work to enter a museum collection, securing a permanent public institutional presence for the artist's drawings.

    Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen · Rotterdam

    Source record
    • Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings (line 307) : Nijland's 1899 gift of Peasant Woman (F1270) to Boijmans as the first Van Gogh to enter a museum collection.
    • https://www.boijmans.nl/en/museum : Current institutional authority for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
  1. Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum A substantial share of Van Gogh's surviving drawings remained with the family and eventually passed to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, whose works are on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum. After Theo's death in 1891, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger preserved and actively circulated the drawings: she lent fifteen selected sheets to Les XX in Brussels, where seven Provençal works were shown, and organized roughly two dozen Van Gogh exhibitions before the First World War, about half devoted to drawings. 6 records
  2. Otterlo Kröller-Müller Museum The Kröller-Müller collection preserves a distinct Van Gogh route through the collecting of Helene Kröller-Müller. She became H. P. Bremmer's pupil in 1905 and engaged him as an adviser in 1907; she and her husband eventually assembled more than 270 Van Gogh paintings and drawings, including roughly 120 sheets from Hidde Nijland's collection. The museum identifies 88 Van Gogh paintings in its collection, mainly acquired between 1908 and 1930. 6 records