Portrait of Marcelle Roulin
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, December 1888
oil on canvas, 35.2 cm x 24.6 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
This plump baby was the youngest child of the postman Joseph Roulin, who sent Van Gogh's paintings from Arles to Paris. The two men became friends, and Van Gogh painted Roulin's entire family: 'the man, his wife, the baby, the young boy and the 16-year-old son, all characters and very French, although they have a Russian look,' he wrote to Theo. He painted several portraits of baby Marcelle – three by herself and two more on her mother's lap.
Van Gogh sent the little portrait to Theo. Theo's wife Jo, who was pregnant at the time, wrote: 'I like to imagine that ours will be as strong, as healthy and as beautiful as that one – and that his uncle will consent to do his portrait one day!'
- F-number
- F0441
- JH-number
- JH1641
- Object number
- s0167V1962
- Dimensions
- 35.2 cm x 24.6 cm, 51.5 cm x 40.4 cm, 6 cm
- Provenance
- Sent by the artist from Arles to his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, at the end of April 1889; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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