La Mousmé
Over het schilderij
La Mousmé is een schilderij van de Nederlandse kunstschilder Vincent van Gogh, in olieverf op doek, 73,3 bij 60,3 centimeter groot. Het werd geschilderd in 1888 te Arles en toont een provinciaals / zigeuner meisje met wijde rok en een witte oleander. Het werk bevindt zich in de National Gallery of Art te Washington D.C..
Van Gogh werd geïnspireerd door Japanse kunst zonder veel diepte. En de roman Madame Chrysanthème van Pierre Loti.
De National Gallery of Art wist het schilderij in 1962 te bemachtigen van Chester Dale. Dale had het schilderij in 1929 gekocht via Galerie Étienne Bignou in Parijs.
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- 1963.10.151
Intussen, in het leven van Vincent van Gogh
Het hele levenFebruary 1886
Moves to Paris to join his brother Theo
Van Gogh left Antwerp to join his brother Theo, an art dealer, in Paris. So began a very fruitful and eventful Paris period: he painted some two hundred and thirty pictures there, more than anywhere else.
February 1888
To Arles, dreaming of a “Studio of the South”
The public still neither accepted nor bought his paintings, and in February 1888 Van Gogh left for Arles in the south of France to found a “Studio of the South”, a brotherhood of like-minded artists in which he gave Gauguin the leading role. Theo backed the plan with money.
23 October 1888
Gauguin arrives in Arles
After much pleading Gauguin arrived in Arles, and in November the two painted together: Gauguin portrayed Van Gogh in “The Painter of Sunflowers”, and their first joint outing was to the Alyscamps. At Gauguin's suggestion Vincent painted from memory, producing “Memory of the Garden at Etten”.
23 December 1888
The severed ear
After an altercation on the evening of 23 December, Van Gogh, seemingly hearing voices, severed his left ear, wholly or in part, with a razor and delivered it, wrapped in paper, to a woman at a brothel. Next morning a policeman found him unconscious; in hospital he was diagnosed with “acute mania with generalised delirium”.
May 1889
Voluntarily into the Saint-Paul asylum
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