| also known as: Portrait of Madame Ginoux | |
| Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
|---|---|
| Year | 1888 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 92.5 cm × 73.5 cm (36.4 in × 28.9 in) |
| Location | Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
L'Arlésienne, L'Arlésienne (Madame Ginoux), or Portrait of Madame Ginoux is the title given to a group of six similar paintings by Vincent van Gogh, painted in Arles, November 1888 (or later), and in Auvers, February 1890. L'Arlésienne is pronounced 'lar lay zyen'; it means literally "the woman from Arles".
The subject, Marie Jullian (or Julien), was born in Arles June 8, 1848 and died there August 2, 1911. She married Joseph-Michel Ginoux in 1866 and together they ran the Café de la Gare, 30 Place Lamartine, where Van Gogh lodged from May to mid September 1888. He had the Yellow House in Arles furnished to settle there.
Evidently until this time, Van Gogh's relations to M. and Mme. Ginoux had remained more or less commercial, but Gauguin's arrival in Arles altered the situation. His courtship charmed the lady, then about 40 years of age, and in the first few days of November 1888 (November 1st, or more probably November 2nd) Madame Ginoux agreed to have a portrait session for Paul Gauguin, and his friend Van Gogh. Within an hour, Gauguin produced a charcoal drawing, while Vincent produced a full-scale painting.
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Van Gogh's first version, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, is painted on burlap. A complete piece of this fabric was acquired by Gauguin just after his arrival in Arles, and used by both artists in November and December 1888.[1]
For the second version, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Van Gogh again painted on the commercially pre-primed canvas he had previously used, and he replaced the gloves and umbrella with some books.
While in the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted another four portraits of Madame Ginoux, based on Gauguin's charcoal drawing of November 1888.
On 2 May, 2006 the painting with the floral background sold at auction at Christie's Galleries at Rockefeller Center, New York, for more than $40 million (USD).
Gauguin produced a charcoal sketch at the original sitting of Madame Ginoux in November 1888, and later produced a canvas.
Members of the Roulin Family are depicted in this portrait, [2] and the woman in Arlésienne costume has the profile of Madame Ginoux. [3]