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

Weaver: The Whole Loom Facing Right

January 1884, Nuenen
Pencil, pen, gouache, watercolour, 318 x 451 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Catalogue numbers: F 1108, JH 451.

The most characteristic motif of this simple composition is the tree with immense foliage closing the right side which is supported by a trellis. The dating of autumn 1883 is not universally accepted, some scholars date it to the spring of 1881.