Portraits by Vincent van Gogh
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Portraits
[edit] Brabant & Antwerp 1881-1886
[edit] Paris 1886-1888
 The Smoker), 1887 |
 Père Tanguy, 1887/1888 |
[edit] Arles 1888-1889
[edit] Vieux Arlésienne
[edit] Le Zouave
[edit] The Mudlark
[edit] La Mousmé
[edit] Le Facteur: Joseph Roulin
While Van Gogh was living in Arles, Joseph Roulin was working at the railway station, both places close to their lodgings: Roulin and his family in a dead-end street, and Van Gogh just around the corner, at 2 Place Lamartine - and both frequented the Café run by the Ginoux couple, some footsteps further; there Van Gogh had lodged, before he moved to the Yellow House.
[edit] L'Italiènne
 Le Zouave, June 1888 |
 La Mousmé, July 1888 |
 Le Facteur: Joseph Roulin, end July 1888 |
 L'Italiènne, August 1888? |
 Vieux Paysan: Patience Escalier, mid August 1888 |
[edit] Vieux Paysan: Patience Escalier
Oil on canvas, 69 x 56 cm
Private collection
There are two versions of this portrait.
[edit] The Poet: Eugène Boch
Eugène Boch (1855 – 1941) was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut, and the younger brother of Anna Boch, a founding member of Les XX. Born into a wealthy dynasty of manufacturers of fine china and ceramics, still active today under the firm of Villeroy & Boch, Eugène Boch enrolled in the private atelier of Léon Bonnat in Paris, in 1879. Since 1882, when Bonnat closed his atelier, he studied at the atelier of Fernand Cormon. Paintings of him where admitted to the Salon in 1882, 1883 and 1885.
In June 1888, he was introduced by Dodge MacKnight to Vincent van Gogh.
The portrait was executed in the first days of September 1888, few days before Boch's departure.
In the first version of Van Gogh's Bedroom, executed in October 1888, this portrait is shown hanging to the left of the portrait of Paul-Eugène Milliet. Arranged this way, both portraits may have formed part of the Décoration for the Yellow House.
When Eugène Boch died in 1936, he bequested The Poet - that is Van Gogh's title for his portrait of Eugène Boch, which Boch received from Johanna van Gogh-Bonger in accordance to the last will of Vincent and Theo - to the Louvre.
[edit] The Lover: Paul-Eugène Milliet
Paul-Eugène Milliet was a 2nd Lieutenant at the 3rd Zouave Regiment which had quarters at the Caserne Calvin located on Boulevard des Lices in Arles. Vincent van Gogh gave him drawings lessons, and in revanche Milliet took a roll of paintings by Van Gogh to Paris, when in mid August he was passing the French capital on his way to the North, where Milliet spent his holidays. On his return to Arles, end September 1888, Milliet handed over a batch of Ukiyo-e woodcuts and other prints selected by Vincent's brother Theo from their collection, - and in the days to follow Vincent executed this portrait of Milliet.
In the first version of Van Gogh's Bedroom, executed in October 1888, Milliet's portrait is shown hanging to the right of the portrait of Eugène Boch
Decades later, when Milliet had retired to the 7th arrondissement in Paris, his memories of Van Gogh were recorded by Pierre Weiller, at this time living on lease in a building owned by Milliet, and published in 1955, after Milliet's death.[1]
 Paul-Eugène Milliet (The Lover), 1888 |
 Eugène Boch (The Poet), 1888 |
[edit] La Mère: Anna Cornelia van Gogh
In September 1888 Van Gogh - answering to a letter of his sister Wil who had told him of a recent photograph of their mother - asked for a print.[2] About a week later he received it, but - "troubled by the black" - sat down to paint a copy based on this likeness:[3]
[edit] The Roulin Family
[edit] The Ginoux Family
Marie Ginoux, born Jullian (or Julien) in Arles (June 8, 1848 - August 2, 1911), and her husband Joseph (1835-1906) married February 2, 1866, and ran the Café de la Gare, at 30 Place Lamartine.
[edit] Doctor Rey
According to Doiteau & Leroy, one day Van Gogh wanted to present a painting he had just finished to Dr Rey. But he refused and offered the painting to the pharmacist of the hospital just passing by, a Mr Rousseau. He, too, refused and so the next passer-by, the administrator of the hospital, was offered the painting - and he, a certain Mr Neuvière, is said to have accepted.[4]
[edit] Saint-Rémy-en-Provence 1889
[edit] The Trabuc Family
 Trabuc |
[edit] Auvers-sur-Oise
[edit] The Gachet Family
.jpg/102px-Portrait_of_Dr._Gachet_(second_version).jpg) Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, 1890 |
 Marguerite Gachet, 1890 |
[edit] Adeline Ravoux and other children from Auvers
Portrait of Adeline Ravoux was painted by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in 1890.
The twelve-year-old Adeline Ravoux was the daughter of Arthur-Gustave Ravoux, whose inn is where Van Gogh lodged in Auvers-sur-Oise. She later wrote a memoir of Van Gogh's stay with them. She witnessed Van Gogh's return to the inn after the fatal incident where he shot himself: "Vincent walked bent, holding his stomach, again exaggerating his habit of holding one shoulder higher than the other. Mother asked him: " M. Vincent, we were anxious, we are happy to see you to return; have you had a problem?" He replied in a suffering voice: "No, but I have…" he did not finish, crossed the hall, took the staircase and climbed to his bedroom. I was witness to this scene. Vincent made on us such a strange impression that Father got up and went to the staircase to see if he could hear anything."[5]
 Portrait of Adeline Ravoux, 1890, oil on canvas, 67 x 55 cm, Private collection |
[edit] Resources
[edit] Notes
- ^ Pierre Weiller: Nous avons retrouvé le zouave de van Gogh, in: Les Lettres françaises, 24 & 31 March 1955. See SB6,296-300
- ^ Letter W 7 from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh, Arles, 9 and 16 September 1888, original version (in French) and translation (in English). Accessed 1 May 2006.
- ^ Letter 546, 548
- ^ Doiteau & Leroy, 1929. See SB VI, 291
- ^ Adeline Ravoux's memoir
[edit] References
- Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits, with contributions by Roland Dorn, George S. Keyes, Joseph J. Rishel with Katherine Sachs, George T. M. Shackelford, Lauren Soth, Judy Sund, and a chronology by Katherine Sachs, Detroit Institute of Arts & Thames and Hudson, 2000 ISBN 0-89558-153-1
[edit] See also
- International platform and resource about the live and work of Vincent van GoghTracing Vincent
[edit] External links
- einfügen
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