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Madame Roulin and Her Baby  1888

by Vincent van Gogh

This vigorously painted portrait of Augustine Roulin and her infant daughter, Marcelle, is one of Van Gogh’s many evocative renderings of the Roulin family, undertaken some six months after the artist relocated from Paris to Arles. Van Gogh painted the entire family of the local postman Joseph Roulin. Here, the chubbycheeked infant is the focus of the enterprise. Her heigh...
Size: 
92 x 73.5 cm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art