![]() It seems to me that a painter has a duty to try to put an idea into his work. Van Gogh's first attempt at the lithograph followed just two days later. What a fine sight an old working man makes, in his patched bombazine suit with his bald head. I did it of Schuitemaker once and always kept the drawing, because I wanted to do it better another time. Today and yesterday I drew two figures of an old man with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. The inspiration for Worn Out was Hubert von Herkomer's Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital, an immensely popular print depicting an old war veteran slumped dead that went on to become an acclaimed painting at the Royal Academy, The Last Muster, that Van Gogh had seen in 1875 when in England. The lithograph was based on a pencil drawing Worn Out, one of a series of studies he made in 1882 of a pensioner and war veteran, Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland, at a local almshouse in The Hague and itself a reworking of a drawing and watercolour he had made the previous year. In the 1970 catalogue raisonné, it was given the title Worn Out: At Eternity's Gate. The painting was completed in early May at a time when he was convalescing from a severe relapse in his health some two months before his death, which is generally accepted as a suicide. Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he made in 1890 in Saint-Rémy de Provence based on an early lithograph.
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