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Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen

Painting by Vincent van Gogh

Summary

Painting by Vincent van Gogh

Field	Value
image_file	Van Gogh - Die Kirche von Nuenen mit Kirchgängern.jpeg
title	Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen
image_upright	1
artist	Vincent van Gogh
year	1884–1885
medium	Oil on canvas
catalogue
height_metric	41.3
width_metric	32.1
city	Amsterdam
museum	Van Gogh Museum

F25
JH521 Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen (Dutch: Het uitgaan van de hervormde kerk te Nuenen) is an early painting by Vincent van Gogh, made in early 1884 and modified in late 1885. It is displayed at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Description

The work was painted in Nuenen, a small village in the North Brabant district of the Netherlands, a few miles northeast of Eindhoven. Van Gogh's father became the pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Nuenen in 1882, and Van Gogh lived with his parents at the vicarage in Nuenen from December 1883 to May 1885. During this time, he made a number of paintings of the local peasants, including The Potato Eaters, and also paintings of the church.

The oil on canvas painting measures 41.5 x. It was made in January or February 1884, showing Van Gogh's father's small church, with hedge and bare trees. Van Gogh made the painting for his mother, while she was confined to her house with a broken leg. It was based on an earlier sketch; like the sketch, the painting originally included a peasant with a spade in the foreground, but it later painted out - probably in late 1885 - when Van Gogh also added the congregation, and leaves to bare trees. The congregation are in mourning clothes: Van Gogh's father had died in March 1885 and Vincent may have added the woman in mourning and congregation members for his mother as a memorial for his father's death.

It is catalogued as "F25" in Jacob Baart de la Faille's 1928 The Works of Vincent van Gogh and as "JH521" in Jan Hulsker's 1978 The Complete Van Gogh.

Theft and recovery

Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It was stolen on 7 December 2002, along with Van Gogh's early painting of Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather, and remained missing for over 13 years until it was recovered by the Italian Guardia di Finanza at Castellammare di Stabia near Naples in January 2016, without its original frame. Its recovery was not announced until September 2016, and it was subsequently returned to the museum and went back on display in March 2017.

References

Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, Van Gogh Museum
Van Gogh and the Art of Living: The Gospel According to Vincent van Gogh, Anton Wessels, p. 112
Stolen Van Goghs back on display after years in criminal underworld, BBC News, 21 March 2017

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