Posing for Vincent - Sint Willibrord
In Etten, Vincent visited labourers in their homes to draw them, although this did not always go according to plan. The people of Etten preferred to be immortalised in their fine Sunday best, while Vincent wanted to draw them in work clothes, in a working position.
Cornelis Schuitemaker, a farmer from St Willebrord, understood what Vincent wanted. He soon became Vincent's favourite model. The audio column at the entrance to the Processiepark commemorates Cornelis Schuitemaker. Vincent also made many studies and drawings of the gardener and clog maker Piet Kaufman.
Vincent wrote to Theo in August 1881: ‘But what a job it is to try to explain to people what posing is. Peasants and citizens are desperately entrenched at the point where they don't want to go, namely that one should not want to pose other than in one's Sunday best with impossible folds where neither knee nor elbow nor shoulder blades nor any other body part has its characteristic dent or elevation.
Posing for Vincent
Dorpsstraat 116
4711 EL
Sint Willibrord
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