Cottages with a Woman Working in the Middle Ground
Vincent van Gogh
1890
Medium
Charcoal, reed pen and black ink, blue pastel, and white chalk on blue-gray laid paper
Dimensions
47 × 62.1 cm (18 9/16 × 24 7/16 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
65479
About the Artist
Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) stands as one of the most influential figures in Western art history, despite a career spanning merely a decade. Born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, to a Protestant pastor's family, van Gogh's path to artistic greatness was anything but conventional. His early adulthood saw him working as an art dealer for Goupil & Cie, a language teacher, and a fervent missiona...