Blind Pensioner with a Stick by GOGH, Vincent van

GOGH, Vincent van

(b. 1853, Groot Zundert, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise)

Blind Pensioner with a Stick

November 1882, The Hague
Lithograph, 475 x 255 mm
Bibliothèque de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris

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This is the first lithograph of van Gogh on which he started to work in November 1882. It is based on a drawing he had made in September. The model was Adrianus Zuyderland, an inhabitant of the Home for Dutch Protestant Pensioners. Zuyderland appears in many of van Gogh's drawings and lithographs from this period.

There are four known impressions of this lithograph.