Vincent van Gogh: English: Miners in the Snow at Dawn (   ) |
| Artist | Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)     |  | | Alternative names | Vincent Willem van Gogh | | Description | Dutch painter, draftsperson and printmaker | | Date of birth/death | 30 March 1853  | 29 July 1890 | | Location of birth/death | Zundert | Auvers-sur-Oise | | Work period | between circa 1880 and circa July 1890 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902 | | Work location | Netherlands ( Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886 date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890) | | Authority file | | artist QS:P170,Q5582 |
| Title | English: Miners in the Snow at Dawn |
| Description | Miners, including thrutchers (children who pushed or pulled the baskets laden with coal), going to work at dawn. Sketched at Cuesmes, Belgium, 1880. |
| Date | 1880 date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
| Medium | pencil medium QS:P186,Q14674 |
| Collection | institution QS:P195,Q224124 |
| Notes | - This is Miners in the Snow at Dawn JH Juv. 10 (no F or JH number in the main catalogues) sent with letter VGM 156 (134 in the 1958 edition. VGM notes that sclôneurs and sclôneuses ("thrutchers") were usually children who worked deep underground in the passages immediately behind a miner and dragged the coal away in baskets. Those baskets were known as sclônes in the local patois. A similar subject (and apparently the sketch referred to in letter VGM 156) is F831 JH Juv. 11 mentioned explicitly in letter VGM 157 (135 in the 1958 edition) of which this sketch is the "croquis".
- Letter 156 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 20 August 1880. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "I’ve done a scratch of miners, male and female thrutchers, going to the pit in the morning, in the snow, on a path beside a thorn-hedge: passing shadows, dimly visible in the dusk. In the background, the large mine buildings and the slag heap are becoming indistinct against the sky. I’m sending you the croquis so that you can picture it for yourself. But I feel the need to study figure drawing from masters like Millet, Breton and Brion or Boughton, or someone else. What do you think of the croquis? Does the idea seem good to you?"
- Letter 157 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Tuesday, 7 September 1880. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "However, I couldn’t help sketching, in fairly large dimensions, the drawing of the miners going to the pit, of which I sent you the croquis, changing the arrangement of the figures slightly."
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