The Diggers

Date1889

Object PlaceHolland, Netherlands, Western Europe, Europe

MediumOil on paper lined onto canvas

ClassificationsPaintings

Dimensionsat left: 840 1/8in. (2134cm)
19 3/4 x 25 5/8in. (50 3/16 x 65 1/16cm)

Credit LineBequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Object number70.158

DescriptionTwo men in blue dig with spades in front of a stand of five trees. Flock of birds at right. Grass in foreground is green and yellow. Background of brown fields, blue mountains and pale blue geen sky.

On View

On view

Locations

Exhibition Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Level 3, European Paintings, Gallery 10b

ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of: Johanna van Gogh-Bonger; April 1907 sold to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris [dealer] Hugo Nathan, Frankfort [dealer?] (by 1912 Cologne exhibition).