She was painted three times by herself and twice on her mother’s lap. Marcelle Roulin, the youngest child lived for 100 years, from 1888 to 1980! She was four months old when van Gogh painted her. he Schoolboy with Uniform Cap (Camille Roulin), early December, 1888.Portrait of Camille Roulin, 1888, Oil on Canvas, 40.5 X 32.5 cm.He was eleven when his portrait was painted. Young Man with a Cap (Armand Roulin), 1888Ĭamille Roulin, the middle child, lived from 1877 – 1922.At the time the paintings were made Armand had left his parents’ home, working as a blacksmith’s apprentice. La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin), December, 1888Īrmand Roulin, their eldest son, lived from 1871 – 1945.La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin), March 1889.La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin), February 1889.La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin), January 1889.Van Gogh titled the group of paintings La Berceuse which means “lullaby” or “the woman rocking the cradle.” Van Gogh created several works while Augustine rocked her cradle by a string. The Mother or Portrait of Madame Augustine Roulin, Nov–Dec 1888 During the sitting, she kept her gaze on Gauguin, possibly because she was not comfortable in the presence of van Gogh. Joseph Roulin, his wife, and his children all agreed to several sittings, so Van Gogh created 23 paintings of the Postman and his family between 1888-1889.Īfter her husband had posed several times for van Gogh, Augustine sat for both van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in the house the two men shared. Van Gogh loved to paint portraits but models were difficult to afford.
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He described him as “such a good soul and so wise and so full of feeling and so trustful.” Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888 Van Gogh compared Roulin to Socrates on many occasions. “I am now at work with another model, a postman in a blue uniform, trimmed with gold, a big bearded face, very like Socrates.”
The Postman became one of his Van Gogh’s favorite sitters in the French town of Arles. I am now at work with another model, a postman in blue uniform, trimmed with gold, a big bearded face, very like Socrates.There are at least 9 portraits made of the Postman Joseph Roulin, and 17 of his family. Van Gogh seems to have painted this one before taking on the whole family. Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888
Marcelle Roulin, whom Van Gogh painted as a baby, photographed in 1955 with a Van Gogh portrait of her father, Joseph Roulin. So the working class family of a postman not only had their portraits painted, but, hanging in their bedroom, they had one of the first Van Gogh collections. Roulin continued to visit him there, and took up correspondence with Theo about his brother’s condition.Īnd in gratitude for sitting as models, Van Gogh gave them a dozen or so paintings, including one of each of their portraits. While Van Gogh thought Joseph Roulin looked like Fyodor Dostoyevsky, he likened the postman’s personality to Socrates for his thoughtfulness and good nature. Soon after writing the above letter, Van Gogh had his famous fight with Gauguin and the following breakdown, and found himself at the Arles hospital. After stints in Vancouver and Edmonton, Canada, Imagine Van Gogh opened in the United States in December 2021 for shows in Boston and Tacoma/Seattle, featuring 200 van Gogh paintings set to the music of Saint-Saëns, Mozart, and Bach. The group of portraits, meanwhile, are arranged nicely on The Roulin Family Wikipedia page. You can read a translation of the full letter here, on a site devoted to Van Gogh’s prolific correspondence. I have made portraits of a whole family, that of the postman whose head I had done previously - the man, his wife, the baby, the young boy, and the son of sixteen, all of them real characters and very French, though they look like Russians. As he wrote to his brother Theo in early December 1888: The artist painted at least 23 portraits of the members of the Roulin family. Van Gogh had become friends (and drinking buddies) with Joseph Roulin (1841-1903), a postman based at the Gare d’Arles railroad station. Imagine his joy when the Roulin family agreed to sit for him.
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(Sunflowers and lilacs were free models.) Still, he yearned to paint faces. Here, the artist concentrated on Roulin's head, which he described in a letter as 'somewhat like. Between late July 1888 and April 1889, he painted at least six portraits of Joseph-Etienne Roulin (18411903), a postman in Arles. In February 1888, Van Gogh moved from Paris to Arles in the South of France, where he painted his famous landscapes. In February 1888 Van Gogh moved to Arles, in the south of France, and continued to paint landscapes and portraits. But without patrons or money to pay models, he didn’t have the opportunity to paint many aside from those of himself. Vincent Van Gogh loved nothing more than painting portraits. Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, April 1888
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