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Van Gogh Museum: Other Artists

Young Woman
5
at a Table,
“Poudre de Riz”
This early painting
by Toulouse-Lautrec
(1887), who became a
friend of Van Gogh, is
probably of his mistress,
Suzanne Valadon.
Portrait of
6
Guus
Preitinger,
the Artist’s Wife
View of Prins Hendrikkade, Monet The vivid use of colour
in Kees van Dongen’s wild, lush
View of Prins
1 portrait of his wife (1911) is
Hendrikkade and
the Kromme Waal in characteristic of Fauvism.
Self-Portrait with
Amsterdam 7
Claude Monet painted this a Portrait of Bernard,
cityscape in the winter of 1874 “Les Misérables”
from a boat on the IJ river. Rapid In his powerful self-portrait (1888),
brush strokes loosely recreate the Paul Gauguin identified him self with
light and feel of the city. the hero of Victor Hugo’s Les
Misérables, Jean Valjean.
Young Peasant Girl
2 Saint
with a Hoe
Geneviève
Jules Breton was an 8
idol of Van Gogh. In as a Child in Prayer
rural scenes like this An oil study (1876) by
one (1882), he places an Puvis de Chavannes
idealized figure of a for the huge murals
peasant girl in a he painted at the
realistic setting. Panthéon in Paris
on the theme of St
Exhausted
3 Geneviève’s childhood.
Maenads
after the Dance 9
“Grand
In this Lawrence Alma- Paysan”
Tadema painting of Jules Dalou shared Van
1874, three devotees Gogh’s preoccupation
(maenads) of the wine with peasants, whom
god, Bacchus, have he saw as heroic
fallen asleep. Saint Geneviève as a labourers. He devised
Child in Prayer, this life-size bronze
Portrait of
4 de Chavannes sculpture in 1889.
Bernard’s
Grandmother 0
Two Women Embracing
Van Gogh swapped one of his self- Van Gogh’s influence on
portraits, Self-Portrait with a Straw the Dutch artist Jan Sluijters is
Hat, for this painting (1887) by obvious in the brushwork and
Emile Bernard, while in Paris. colour of this painting of 1906.

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