• Amédéé Schuffenecker, Clamart [R1908]
• S.I. Stschukin, Moscow, cat 1913, nr 35
• Moscow, Museum of Modern Western Art [acquired 1918], cat 1928, nr 79
• Leningrad, Hermitage [acquired 1948], inv nr 9116, cat 1958, p 291at 1967, nrs 65-66

• 1908 Paris (VvG, Galerie E. Druet, 6-18 January, 35 nrs), 30
• 1926 Moscow
• 1956 Moscow, Leningrad, p II
• 1960 Paris, 49

Catalogues raisonnés:

• F496: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdã: J.M. Meulenhoff, nr 496 .
• JH1630 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, nr  1630.
  
• Compare sketch in letter VGM 720 and Paul Gauguin's Arlésiennes (Mistral) In letter 723 Vincent refers to the painting as "that thing I did of the garden at Nuenen" (i.e. his last family home and not at Etten), taken by Hulsker to indicate that he really had no particular location in mind (Hulsker p.374).
• Letters
• Letter 719 to Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 11 or Monday, 12 November 1888. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "I’ve been working on two canvases.
  A reminiscence of our garden at Etten with cabbages, cypresses, dahlias and figures...
  Gauguin gives me courage to imagine, and the things of the imagination do indeed take on a more mysterious character."
• Letter 720 to Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 12 November 1888. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "I’ve already replied to you that I didn’t like Mother’s portrait enormously. I’ve now just painted a reminiscence of the garden at Etten, to put in my bedroom, and here’s a croquis of it. It’s quite a big canvas... [with sketch and extended description]"
• Letter 723 to Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 1 December 1888. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "Our [i.e. Vincent and Gauguin] days pass in working, working always, in the evening we’re worn out and go to the café before retiring to bed early. That’s our existence. Naturally it’s winter here too, although the weather still continues to be very fine from time to time. But I don’t find it disagreeable to try to work from the imagination, since that permits me not to go out. Working in the heat of a stove doesn’t bother me, but the cold isn’t for me, as you know. Only I’ve spoiled that thing I did of the garden at Nuenen and I feel that habit is also necessary for works of the imagination. But I’ve done the portraits of an entire family ..."

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  Small file, as provided by the Hermitage.