Ink, graphite and gouache on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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C Frank Stoop
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Thatched Roofs
Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
architecture
blossom
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
cottage
countries and continents
hedge
landscape
natural phenomena
Netherlands, Brabant
Neunen
places
plants and flowers
residential
seasons
smoke
townscapes / man-made features
tree
village
winter
wooded
<p>This depicts a group of cottages at Nuenen in Brabant. The cottages are similar to a group that appear in an oil painting known as 'Village at Sunset'. Van Gogh mentioned this and two other drawings in a letter to a friend, the painter van Rappard, as an example of his recent work. Of one of them, he said, 'I had to do it roughly and quickly for the time was rather short for catching the right effect of light and shade, and the tone of the scene, and Nature as it was at that very moment.' The wintry scene of this drawing relates it to a similar drawing described to van Rappard in a letter of March 1884.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2021</em></p>
paper unique ink graphite gouache
1 July 2005 – 31 December 2005
2005-12-31
1 July 2005 – 18 September 2005
2005-09-18
2005-07-01
Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/
12 October 2005 – 31 December 2005
2005-12-31
2005-10-12
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2005-07-01
Van Gogh Drawings
Loan-out
31 March 2006 – 24 September 2006
2006-09-24
31 March 2006 – 18 June 2006
2006-06-18
2006-03-31
Compton Verney (Compton Verney, UK)
7 July 2006 – 24 September 2006
2006-09-24
2006-07-07
National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh, UK)
2006-03-31
Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors
Loan-out
12 January 2010 – 18 April 2010
2010-04-18
23 January 2010 – 18 April 2010
2010-04-18
2010-01-23
Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
2010-01-12
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
Loan-out
20 October 2012 – 21 January 2013
2013-01-21
20 October 2012 – 21 January 2013
2013-01-21
2012-10-20
Denver Art Museum (Denver, USA)
2012-10-20
Van Gogh's Awakening: Antwerp, Paris, Arles
Loan-out
27 March 2019 – 11 August 2019
2019-08-11
27 March 2019 – 11 August 2019
2019-08-11
2019-03-27
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2019-03-27
Van Gogh and Britain
Exhibition
25 November 2023 – 10 March 2024
2024-03-10
25 November 2023 – 10 March 2024
2024-03-10
2023-11-25
Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
2023-11-25
The Triumph of Drawings: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Works on Paper
Loan-out
Thatched Roofs
support: 305 × 448 mm
frame: 601 × 701 × 35 mm
Bequeathed by <a href="/search?gid=999999963" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">C. Frank Stoop</a> 1933
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<p>This depicts a group of cottages at Nuenen in Brabant. The cottages are similar to a group that appear in an oil painting known as 'Village at Sunset'. Van Gogh mentioned this and two other drawings in a letter to a friend, the painter van Rappard, as an example of his recent work. Of one of them, he said, 'I had to do it roughly and quickly for the time was rather short for catching the right effect of light and shade, and the tone of the scene, and Nature as it was at that very moment.' The wintry scene of this drawing relates it to a similar drawing described to van Rappard in a letter of March 1884.</p>
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<p><b>Vincent van Gogh</b><span> 1853-1890 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gogh-thatched-roofs-n04715" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04715</span></a> </span><b>Thatched Roofs</b><span> 1884 </span>
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<br/><span>Pen and ink and pencil heightened with gouache on paper, slightly irregular, 12 1/4 x 17 4/5 (31.2 x 45.3)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Mrs J. van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam; C. Frank Stoop, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Vincent van Gogh en zijn Tijdgenooten</i><span>, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, September-November 1930 (112); </span><i>Vincent van Gogh: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle</i><span>, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, April-June 1970 (34, repr.)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
J.-B. de la Faille, </span><i>L'Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh</i><span>
(Paris-Brussels 1928), No.1242, Vol.3, p.93, repr. Vol.4, pl.104 as 'Les Chaumières'; </span><i>Letters to an Artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton Ridder van Rappard 1881-1885</i><span> (London 1936), pp.163, 168 and facsimile facing p.162; Walther Vanbeselaere, </span><i>De Hollandsche Periode (1880-1885) in het Werk van Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)</i><span> (Antwerp 1937), No.1242, pp.259, 322, 412; </span><i>The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh</i><span> (London 1958), R42 and R45, Vol.3, pp.396-7, 404; J.-B. de la Faille, </span><i>The Works of Vincent van Gogh</i><span> (Amsterdam 1970), No.F1242, p.442, repr. p.443 as 'Huts with Thatched Roofs'</span><br/><i>Repr:</i><span> </span><i>Lettres de Vincent van Gogh à Emile Bernard</i><span> (Paris 1911), pl.17 as 'Chaumières Hollandaises' </span>
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<p><span>Cottages at Nuenen in Brabant. </span>
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<p><span>Van Gogh mentioned this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> in a letter to his friend the painter van Rappard (R45) of May 1884 as 'Thatched Roofs': it was one of three <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pen-and-ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Pen and Ink'"><span>pen and ink</span></a> drawings which he was sending as examples of his recent work. The other drawings sent at the same time seem to have been 'Little Ditch' (F.1243), which resembles this in having a dark framing border in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Ink'"><span>ink</span></a>, and 'Pines in the Fen' (F.1249). After saying that he would have preferred the pen strokes in these drawings to follow the lines of the forms and to have strengthened the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/tone" title="Glossary definition for 'Tone'"><span>tones</span></a> of the masses, he added: 'I had to do it roughly and quickly for the time was rather short for catching the right effect of light and shade, and the tone of the scene, and Nature as it was at that very moment.' The Tate's drawing was probably executed two months earlier as it closely resembles a pen and ink sketch, apparently of the same site, in another letter to van Rappard (R42) written in March. Also the scene is still wintry. </span>
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<p><span>A very similar group of cottages appears in the oil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> F.190, known as 'Village at Sunset'. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/modernism" title="Glossary definition for 'Modernism'"><span>Modern Art</span></a> other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.290-1, reproduced p.290</span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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architecture blossom cities, towns, villages (non-UK) cottage countries and continents hedge landscape natural phenomena Netherlands, Brabant Neunen places plants and flowers residential seasons smoke townscapes / man-made features tree village winter wooded