Woman with White Cap, Half-length
signed 'Vincent' (lower center)
watercolor and pencil on paper
19 x 12 in. (48.2 x 30.4 cm.)
Drawn in The Hague, March 1883
Provenance

H. P. Bremmer, The Hague.
Heirs of H. P. Bremmer, The Hague (acquired by descent from the above, 1956).
E. J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam (acquired from the above, 1961).
Samuel Sair, Winnipeg, Manitoba (acquired from the above, 1961).
Anon. sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 21 October 1971, lot 89.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Huinck en Scherjon, Schiderijen door Vincent van Gogh, J. B. Jongkind, Floris Verster, May-June 1932, no. 4.
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Verzameling H. P. Bremmer, March-April 1950, no. 49.
Paris, Muse Jacquemart Andr, Vincent van Gogh, February-March 1960, no. 89.
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collections, May-September 1993.

The present work was drawn while van Gogh was residing on the outskirts of The Hague. He was living with Sien Hoornik (see note to lot 401), who had a daughter Maria about six years old, and gave birth to a second child in July 1882. While Vincent has not married to Sien, and neither child was his, he was deeply in love with her.