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Postman Joseph Roulin
1888
One of van Gogh’s closest friends and favorite sitters in Arles was the local postman, Joseph Roulin. While painting this work, van Gogh wrote to his brother, “I am now at work with another model, a postman in blue uniform, trimmed with gold, a big bearded face, very like Socrates.” Indeed, the modest postman has all the authority of an admiral. Van Gogh also painted several portraits of Madame Roulin, as well as images of their children, delighted, as he wrote, to depict “a whole family.”
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of Robert Treat Paine, 2nd
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of Robert Treat Paine, 2nd
- Size:
- 81.3 x 65.4 cm
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- License:
- Public Domain, Courtesy of the MFA Boston
- For more:
- http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/postman-joseph-roulin…
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