''Madame Roulin and Her Baby'' is an 1888 painting by
Vincent van Gogh. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts Augustine and Marcelle Roulin, the later of whom was an infant. The Roulin family became acquaintances of van Gogh after the family's patriarch, postman Joseph Roulin, met Van Gogh following the artist's relocation to the town of Arles. The painting is in the collection of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Description
The painting was produced by Van Gogh six months after the artist moved from Paris to the town of Arles. In town, Van Gogh became acquainted with Joseph Roulin, a local postman, and would go one to render multiple paintings of the Roulin family; this series of works in commonly referred to as ''
The Roulin Family
''The Roulin Family'' is a group of portrait paintings Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles in 1888 and 1889 on Joseph, his wife Augustine and their three children: Armand, Camille and Marcelle. This series is unique in many ways. Although Van ...
''.
''Madame Roulin and Her Baby'' is one of several works by Van Gogh that depict the infant Marcelle Roulin. One source names the painting as featuring Marcelle when she was three months old.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's profile of the work describes the painting as being "vigorously painted", with thick brush strokes being used to capture the infant's expression.
See also
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List of works by Vincent van Gogh
List of works by Vincent van Gogh is an incomplete list of paintings and other works by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. The listing is ordered by year and then by catalogue number. While more accurate dating of Van Gogh's work is often difficu ...
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1888 paintings
Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Paintings by Vincent van Gogh
Paintings of children
Oil on canvas paintings