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Detail of First Steps After Millet by Van Gogh in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

Detail of First Steps After Millet by Van Gogh in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011
Title: First Steps, after Millet

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)

Date: 1890

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28 1/2 x 35 7/8 in. (72.4 x 91.1 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of George N. and Helen M. Richard, 1964

Accession Number: 64.165.2

In fall and winter 1889–90, while a voluntary patient at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted twenty-one copies after Millet, an artist he greatly admired. He considered his copies "translations" akin to a musician's interpretation of a composer's work. He let the black-and-white images—whether prints, reproductions, or, as here, a photograph that his brother, Theo, had sent—pose "as a subject," then he would "improvise color on it." For this work of January 1890, Van Gogh squared-up a photograph of Millet's First Steps and transferred it to the canvas.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436526

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