But when Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) set his sights on mastering the art of portraiture upon moving to Arles in the south of France in February 1888, he turned to the local postman, Joseph ...

Japan wins out, with three separate shows that, together, will probably attract over a million visitors this year ...

He wrote: “Mr Courtauld feels that ‘The Postman’, fine as the face is, is not, taking it as a whole, quite adequate to represent Vincent van Gogh.” However, Van Gogh does appear to have su ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Postman Joseph Roulin” (1888) (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) “A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes ...

In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in ... “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family, the family of the postman,” van Gogh wrote to his brother in late 1888.

Vincent van Gogh’s name is synonymous with the tortured ... a local family including the postman of Arles and his wife and children. In focusing on van Gogh’s portraits of the Roulin family ...

The Museum of Fine Arts opened a new Van Gogh exhibit March 30, which featured some of Vincent Van Gogh’s most notable and ... The Roulins were a working-class family with Joseph Roulin working as a ...

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Théo van Gogh, an art dealer, wrote to his brother Vincent about the show ... included a portrait of a postman with his worn-out shoe protruding from the canvas; later shows featured an ...

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) once wrote ... the artist created a number of portraits of a neighboring family—the postman Joseph Roulin; his wife, Augustine; and their three children: Armand, Camille, ...