"Vincent's chair is also simple but realistic. He was perhaps the first who painted a chair. On the Internet I have found no chairs painted by his contemporaries and artist friends (Lautrec, Gauguin, Seurat, Signac, Manet, Monet and Renoir). The chair was apparently no painterly subject..... Van Gogh painted 2 chairs....The chairs are seen as a personification of their owners..." Google translation of http://petrusnelissen.blogspot.nl/2013/12/de-rode-stoel-en-die-van-vincent-van.html