Workman sitting on a basket, cutting bread

Vincent Van Gogh – Workman sitting on a basket, cutting bread
The Hague, 1882
Transfer lithography, crayon and autographic ink 49 x 31,5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Today 139 years ago, on 4 February 1883, Vincent van Gogh wrote to Anthon van Rappard from The Hague:

“As to the lithographs, the one of the chap sitting on a basket slicing his bread is a failure. When it was being transferred to the stone, the upper half came out all blotted and I could only partly correct it with the scraper.”