Van Gogh Museum

Amsterdam, Netherlands · 240 works · 17 painters

The Van Gogh Museum stands in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is devoted mainly to the work of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. Its story begins with the estate he left when he died at the age of 37: roughly 900 paintings and around 1,100 drawings, very few of which he had managed to sell. Everything passed to his younger brother Theo, an art dealer who had also gathered works by Paul Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Léon Lhermitte and Jean-François Millet. Theo died a year after Vincent, so the inheritance fell to his widow, Johanna van Gogh, who returned to the Netherlands, organised the first exhibitions of the painter's work and helped publish his letters in several languages. The first major show took place in 1905 at the Stedelijk Museum. Later, their son, the engineer Vincent Willem van Gogh, lent the collection to various museums and in 1962 entrusted it to a foundation. The museum opened in 1976 and occupies two buildings: the original one, designed by Gerrit Rietveld and inaugurated in 1973, and the exhibition wing by Kishō Kurokawa, completed in 1998. It holds 213 paintings by Vincent van Gogh from all phases of his career, about 406 drawings, and most of his surviving letters. Key works include The Potato Eaters, The Bedroom in Arles and a version of Sunflowers. The nineteenth-century collection that Theo began has grown steadily, with works by Bernard, Caillebotte, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Seurat, Signac, Redon and other artists of the period.

Works

**The Potato Eaters**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Wheatfield with Crows**Vincent van Gogh1890

**The Yellow House**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette**Vincent van Gogh1884

**Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers**Paul Gauguin1888

**Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background**Vincent van Gogh1888

**View of the Sea at Scheveningen**Vincent van Gogh1882

**Crab on its Back**Vincent van Gogh1887

**View from Theo’s apartment**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Wheat Field with a Lark**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen**Vincent van Gogh1880

**Kingfisher by the Waterside**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Wheatfield under Thunderclouds**Vincent van Gogh1890

**Vase with Irises**Vincent van Gogh1890

**Pietà (after Delacroix), The**Vincent van Gogh1889

**Avenue of Poplars in Autumn**Vincent van Gogh1884

**Still Life with Bible**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Self-portrait with Portrait of Bernard**Paul Gauguin1888

**Farm with Stacks of Peat**Vincent van Gogh1883

**Red Cabbages and Garlic**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Vincent van Gogh**John Peter Russell1886

**Paul Gauguin's Armchair**Vincent van Gogh1888

**View of Arles with Irises in the Foreground**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Giant Peacock Moth**Vincent van Gogh1889

**The Raising of Lazarus**Vincent van Gogh1890

**Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass**Vincent van Gogh1888

**The Old Cemetery Tower at Nuenen**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Bridge in the rain, after Hiroshige**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Bedroom in Arles**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Baby Marcelle Roulin**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (after Millet)**Vincent van Gogh1889

**Landscape at Twilight**Vincent van Gogh1890

**Small pear tree in blossom**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Farmhouse in a wheat field**Vincent van Gogh1888

**The Langlois bridge**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Orchards in blossom, view of Arles**Vincent van Gogh1889

**The Hill of Montmartre with Stone Quarry**Vincent van Gogh1886

**Flowering plum tree, after Hiroshige**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Montmartre: mills and vegetable gardens**Vincent van Gogh1887

**The Sower III (version 2)**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Wheatfield with a Reaper**Vincent van Gogh1889

**Still Life with Cabbage and Clogs**Vincent van Gogh1881

**Woman Winding Yarn**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Still Life with Earthenware and Bottles**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Still Life with Bottles and Earthenware**Vincent van Gogh1884

**Self-Portrait with Straw Hat**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Self-Portrait with Straw Hat and Pipe**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Self-Portrait with Pipe**Vincent van Gogh1886

**Self-Portrait as a Painter**Vincent van Gogh1886

**The Vicarage at Nuenen**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Self-Portrait with Felt Hat**Vincent van Gogh1886

**The De Ruijterkade in Amsterdam**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Café table with absinth**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Head of a Prostitute**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Portrait of Léonie Rose Charbuy-Davy**Vincent van Gogh1887

**The pink peach tree**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Self-Portrait with Glass**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Boulevard de Clichy**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Impasse des Deux Frères**Vincent van Gogh1887

**View of a Butcher's Shop**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Self-Portrait with Pipe and Straw Hat**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Portrait of Camille Roulin**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Peach Tree in Blossom**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Field with Poppies**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Cypresses and Two Women**Vincent van Gogh1890

**Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow (after Millet)**Vincent van Gogh1890

**The Sheepshearer (after Millet)**Vincent van Gogh1889

**Ravine with a Small Stream**Vincent van Gogh1889

**Garden of the Asylum**Vincent van Gogh1889

**Reminiscence of Brabant**Vincent van Gogh1890

**The Reaper (after Millet)**Vincent van Gogh1889

**The Thresher (after Millet)**Vincent van Gogh1889

**The Sheaf-Binder (after Millet)**Vincent van Gogh1889

**Peasant Woman Bruising Flax (after Millet)**Vincent van Gogh1889

**Landscape with Rabbits**Vincent van Gogh1889

**Daubigny's Garden**Vincent van Gogh1890

**City View of Amsterdam**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Haymaking, Éragny**Camille Pissarro1887

**View Seen Through a Balcony**Gustave Caillebotte1880

**Self-Portrait with Portrait of Gauguin**Émile Bernard1888

**Small Bottle with Peonies and Blue Delphiniums**Vincent van Gogh1886

**The pink orchard**Vincent van Gogh1888

**The white orchard**Vincent van Gogh1888

**Vase with Gladioli and China Asters**Vincent van Gogh1886

**Basket of pansies on a small table**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Montmartre: behind the Moulin de la Galette**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Garden with courting couples - Square Saint-Pierre**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Quinces, lemons, pears and grapes**Vincent van Gogh1887

**Women on the Peat Moor**Vincent van Gogh1883

**Still Life with Brass Cauldron and Jug**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Vase with Honesty**Vincent van Gogh1884

**Study for 'The Potato Eaters'**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Basket of Apples**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Basket of Potatoes**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Still Life with Vegetables and Fruit**Vincent van Gogh1884

**Baskets of Potatoes**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Woman Lifting Potatoes**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Woman with a Mourning Shawl**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Head of a young peasant with a Pipe**Vincent van Gogh1884

**Portrait of an Old Woman**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Portrait of an Old Man**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Portrait of a Prostitute**Vincent van Gogh1885

**Nude Girl, Seated**Vincent van Gogh1886

**Portrait of Agostina Segatori**Vincent van Gogh1887

Van Gogh Museum

Works

Artists with work in this museum