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Boterbeurs, Wijnstraat 158-160

The Boterbeurs (butter market) building still exists in its original location but is not open to the public. The Dordrechts Museum moved to Museumstraat (then Lindengracht) in 1904. It remains open to the public and still houses a large collection of works by Ary Scheffer.

Van Gogh in

Dordrechts Museum

  1. 9 Jan. 1877 1877
     - 2 May 1877

Vincent paid a few visits to the Dordrechts Museum, which displayed works by one of his favourite artists, Ary Scheffer (1795–1858). In Vincent’s first letter from Dordrecht to his brother Theo, he mentioned going to the museum and seeing Scheffer’s Christ at Gethsemane, a painting that had once made a strong impression on his father. Vincent, too, regarded it as an unforgettable work, and he returned to the museum several times just to see “the Scheffers”. When his father came to visit on 16 February 1877, they went to the museum together, and Vincent was entirely “in his element”. He returned a week later with his brother Theo, and again in April with his housemates and colleagues Paulus Coenraad Görlitz, Nicolaas “Nico” Mager and Ten Broek.

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Any Scheffer, Christus in Gethsemane, 1893

Any Scheffer, Christus in Gethsemane, 1893

Oil on canvas, 140 x 98 cm

Dordrecht Museum

Ary Scheffer, The Moaning of the earth rise up to heaven and change into Hope and Bliss, 1847-1858

Ary Scheffer, The Moaning of the earth rise up to heaven and change into Hope and Bliss, 1847-1858

Oil on canvas, 219 x 141,5 cm

Dordrechts Museum

Ary Johannes Lamme, The smaal of Ary Scheffer, Rue Chaptal 16, 1850

Ary Johannes Lamme, The smaal of Ary Scheffer, Rue Chaptal 16, 1850

Oil on canvas, 60 x 73,6 cm

Dordrechts Museum

Andreas Schelfhout, Winterlandschap in Holland

Andreas Schelfhout, Winterlandschap in Holland

Oil on canvas, 66,3 x 85,8. cm

Dordrechts Museum

    Useful links

    1. Dordrechts Museum
    2. The Vincent van Gogh Gallery

    Relevant letters from Vincent

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    1. M.J. Brusse

      Onder de menschen: Vincent van Gogh als boekverkoopersbediende I-III
      In: Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant 31 mei 1914, 2 juni 1914, 4 juni 1914 (later opgenomen in Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Verzamelde brieven, 1973)

    2. E.H. Cossee

      Vincent van Gogh en kerkelijk Dordrecht
      In: Kwartaal & teken 6- 1 (1980), pp. 1-5

    3. Herinneringen van C. Görlitz

      Brief aan Frederik van Eeden, Nijmegen, 3 februari 1891
      (te raadplegen in: documentatiemap ‘Dordrecht’ in het Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)

    4. Ad Molendijk

      Vincent van Gogh in Dordrecht
      In: Kwartaal & Teken 16-2 (1990), pp. 3-10