{"id":13134,"date":"2021-10-06T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=13134"},"modified":"2023-04-17T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T20:09:39","slug":"a-small-list-of-great-artists-12-vincent-van-gogh-the-roulin-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/13134","title":{"rendered":"A Small List of Great Artists \u2013 Vincent van Gogh’s Portraits of Roulin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Got to A Small List of Great Artists<\/a><\/strong><\/em> <\/a>Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)<\/a><\/strong>
Got to Van Gogh\u2019s Self Portraits<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Vincent van Gogh had trouble hiring models, for monetary reasons, but also, I picture a man who was thoroughly unpleasant to be around, not “a people person” that townspeople are flocking to go up alone to his studio to spend lengthy chunks of time with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Van Gogh was living in Arles from 1888-1889, he was primarily producing landscapes. But Joseph Roulin came to be a loyal and supportive friend, and not only wound up posing for multiple portraits, he also had his family – his wife as well as children ranging from four months to seventeen years – pose. Van Gogh painted every one of them at least twice, and then let them keep a painting of each family member, so that their home was a literal portrait gallery of modern art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph was 47 at the time, a working class man at the railroad station as an entreposeur des postes. <\/em>(Warehouse shipping and receiving? Storage and inventory maintenence? Who can translate French??)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How These Portraits Began Shaping my Comic<\/h5>
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In researching for my comic book project, Brush with Peril<\/em>, stumbling onto these portraits was my first opportunity to begin realizing that often artists revisit subject matter, and work at it, over and over again. This first glimpse and realization of an artist’s series began to become very fascinating for me to see, as I then found it again and again – Van Gogh’s bedroom, Bacon’s Popes, Freud’s self-portraits, Degas’ ballet dancers, Monet’s water lilies or hay stacks or trains. It not only becomes fascinating to get a sense for what an artist was attempting, but also in using these images for my narrative story-telling comic book, in which a character could appear more than once to have a continuing narrative, and a new painting could be referenced each time, rather than either re-using the same image, or trying to come up with my own version of how a character or scene might appear and be consistent.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

[Extra special thanks to www.art-vangogh.com<\/a>, a fantastic website with an immense gallery of Van Gogh’s work as well as some great biographical info!]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Also see a cool article about The Roulin Family<\/a> at Wikipedia!]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Roulin Portraits<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin<\/a> (1888) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, The Postman Joseph Roulin<\/em> (drawing) (1888), Los Angeles County Museum of Art<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of the Postman Roulin<\/em><\/a> – second version (1888), Detroit Institute of Arts<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of Joseph Roulin<\/a>,<\/em> Drawing after the second version (1888), The J. Paul Getty Museum<\/a>, Los Angeles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, The Father or Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin<\/em><\/a> (1888), Winterthur Art Museum<\/a>, Switzerland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, The Postman -Joseph-\u00c9tienne Roulin (1889), The Barnes Foundation<\/a>, Philadelphia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of Joseph Roulin<\/em> (1889), Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum<\/a>, Otterlo 018<\/a>, 022<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin<\/em><\/a> (1889), Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Van Gogh’s Portraits of Roulin’s family<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, The Mother or Portrait of Madame Augustine Roulin<\/em> (1888) Oskar Reinhart Collection<\/a>, Am R\u00f6merholz, Winterthur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paul Gauguin<\/a>, Madame Roulin<\/em> (1888), Saint Louis Art Museum<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Lullaby – Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle<\/em> (1889), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, La Berceuse – Augustine Roulin<\/em> (1888), The Art Institute of Chicago<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Augustine Roulin (La Berceuse<\/em> (1889), Stedelijk Museum<\/a>, Amsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Woman Rocking a Cradle – Augustine-Alix Pelicot Roulin<\/em> (1889), Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, La Berceuse – Augustine Roulin<\/em> (1888) Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum<\/a>, Otterlo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of Madame Augustine Roulin and Baby Marcelle<\/em> (1888), The Philadelphia Museum of Art<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Mother Roulin with Her Baby<\/em> (1888), Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of Marcelle Roulin<\/em> (1888), Liechtenstein Museum of Fine Arts<\/a>, Vaduz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of Marcelle Roulin <\/em>(1888), Van Gogh Museum<\/a>, Amsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Roulin’s Baby<\/em> (1888) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin<\/a> (1888), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, The Postman -Joseph-\u00c9tienne Roulin (1889), The Barnes Foundation<\/a>, Philadelphia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of Joseph Roulin<\/em> (1889), Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum<\/a>, Otterlo 018<\/a>, 022<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Woman Rocking a Cradle – Augustine-Alix Pelicot Roulin<\/em> (1889), Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (1889), Art Institute of Chicago<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Augustine Roulin (La Berceuse<\/em> (1889), Stedelijk Museum<\/a>, Amsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Lullaby<\/em> – Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (1889), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, La Berceuse – Augustine Roulin<\/em> (1888) Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum<\/a>, Otterlo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portrait of Marcelle Roulin <\/em>(1888), Van Gogh Museum<\/a>, Amsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Roulin<\/a>, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Portraits of Mrs. and Mr. Roulin<\/a>, Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum<\/a>, Otterlo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n

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