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La Mousmé
La Mousmé

Date : 1888

Dimensions : 60 cm x 73 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Chester Dale Collection (1963)
Post-Impressionnistes
Item 9 on 14
French Painting
Painting (Portrait)

Area related
Provence (France)



Description   

On about 25 July 1888, Van Gogh wrote his younger brother Theo to announce :
"And now, if you know what a 'mousmé' is (you will know when you have read Loti's Madame Chrysanthème), I have just painted one. It took me a whole week ... but I had to reserve my mental energy to do the mousmé well. A mousme is a Japanese girl (Provençal here) twelve to fourteen years old."

La Mousmé was one of a group of portrait studies which, Vincent wrote, were, "the only thing in painting that excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else."

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