Collection of Van gogh paintings at the Barnes Foundation
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin (1841–1903) F432
Artist
Vincent van Gogh
Year
early August, 1888
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
81.2 cm × 65.3 cm (32.0 in × 25.7 in)
Location
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Main article: Vincent van Gogh
The Roulin Family is a group of portrait paintings Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles in 1888 and 1889 of Joseph, his wife Augustine and their three children: Armand, Camille and Marcelle. This series is unique in many ways. Although Van Gogh loved to paint portraits, it was difficult for financial and other reasons for him to find models. So, finding an entire family that agreed to sit for paintings — in fact, for several sittings each — was a bounty.
Joseph Roulin became a particularly good, loyal and supporting friend to Van Gogh during his stay in Arles. To represent a man he truly admired was important to him. The family, with children ranging in age from four months to seventeen years, also gave him the opportunity to produce works of individuals in several different stages of life.
Rather than making photographic-like works, Van Gogh used his imagination, colours and themes artistically and creatively to evoke desired emotions from the audience.
TheRoulinFamily is a group of portrait paintings Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles in 1888 and 1889 of Joseph, his wife Augustine and their three children:...
to the Yellow House. Roulin was married to Augustine. They had three children: Armand, Camille and Marcelle. Van Gogh painted each of Roulin'sfamily members...
Character Studies (Van Gogh series) TheRoulinFamily (Van Gogh series): Arles, interaction and support by Roulinfamily Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (Van...
an infant. TheRoulinfamily became acquaintances of van Gogh after thefamily's patriarch, postman Joseph Roulin, met Van Gogh following the artist's relocation...
The Red Vineyards near Arles is an oil painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, executed on a privately primed Toile de 30 piece of burlap in early...
devised anything better." (The painting he is referring to is La Berceuse, which is a realistic portrait of Augustine Roulin with an imaginative floral...
Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress where the pilgrim is sorrowful that the road is so long, yet rejoices because the Eternal City waits at the journey's...
Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The painting is an example of the double-square canvases that he employed in his last landscapes. Van Gogh spent the last few months of...
Madame Roulin is an oil on canvas portrait by Paul Gauguin of Augustine Roullin (née Pellicot; 1851-1930), wife of the postman Joseph Roulin (1841-1903)...
of the models for Vincent van Gogh's RoulinFamily portraits. Booth played Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx in the 2019 film The Dirt. Booth played the writer...
The Church at Auvers is an oil painting created by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in June 1890 which now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay...
The Langlois Bridge at Arles is the subject of four oil paintings, one watercolor and four drawings by Vincent van Gogh. The works, made in 1888 when van...
have been staged around the world since the 2000s. The for-profit events range across venues, organizers, and locations, though the majority have been held...
Édouard Manet. She is also known for running the Café du Tambourin in Paris. Agostina Segatori was born in the Italian city of Ancona. In 1860 she posed...
Saintes-Maries (1888) Boats du Rhône (1888) Décoration for the Yellow House (1888) TheRoulinFamily (1888–89) Hospital in Arles (1888–89) Flowering Orchards...
destroyed during the Second World War during an air raid on Germany. The painting depicts the artist on his way to work, and it is thought to be the first self-portrait...
Retrieved 2023-11-09. Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. 2013. p. 136. Hulsker, Jan (1996). The Complete Van Gogh. J.M. Meulenhoff...
there in the Ixelles Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium.[citation needed] Boch's family was involved in art in different ways. Her father, Frédéric Victor Boch...
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