Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland [SEP] creator
Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland
Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland was Vincent van Gogh's favorite model during his Hague period. He appears in dozens of drawings, easily identified by his bald head and prominent white whiskers, and he was the model for the drawing which was the basis for van Gogh's later iconic painting "At Eternity's Gate".
Background.
He is first mentioned by van Gogh in a letter to Anthon van Rappard, dated around 19 September 1882: "... I’ve also been painting and watercoloring, and in
Lithograph.
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 watercolor he had made the previous year. 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