The Van Gogh Museum houses the world's largest collection of art works and letters from Vincent van Gogh. This internationally acclaimed collection is displayed in conjunction with works by the artist's predecessors, contemporaries and successors, enabling museum visitors to follow Van Gogh's career very closely. Acquisitions enhance the collection, making it possible to look at familiar works in a fresh light and thus add new meaning to them. During the directorship of John Leighton (1997-2006) the Van Gogh Museum extended its collection with prominent paintings by Impressionists like Manet, Pissarro, Monet, Seurat and Caillebotte. The collection of works on paper was also enlarged with drawings, from among others, Lhermitte and Toorop as well as famous posters by Toulouse-Lautrec and Steinlen. ...] In this volume, all the new purchases are described in detail and presented in relation to the existing museum collection