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Catalogue numbers: F 1447, JH 1503.
Van Gogh had begun his artistic career primarily as a draughtsman, and drawing remained an important element of his work. Drawings were not merely preparation for painting and thus subordinate to it. They were independent exercises. Van Gogh has used a reed pen in parts, in imitation of the tools used by Japanese draughtsmen. Indeed, he planned to collect many of these Arlesian drawings in a kind of album, the like of which he had read about in books on Japanese artists.
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