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

The Oranjeboom Windmill, Dordrecht

August-September 1881, Etten
Charcoal, pencil on woven paper, 348 x 599 mm
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

Catalogue numbers: F 843, JH 6.

In August 1881 van Gogh visited for a few days his friends in The Hague. On his way back to Etten, he stopped in Dordrecht where ten windmills were still working that time. He did a drawing of one of the mills, the Oranjeboom grain mill.