“Never were the postman and the painter closer ... Portrait of Marcelle Roulin, Vincent van Gogh, 1888 Van Gogh Museum The exhibition illuminates the lives of the Roulins through supplemental ...

An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat ...

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 ...

The postman and the artist met soon ... Some of the letters were sent to Van Gogh’s family after Joseph visited Vincent in the hospital after his breakdown. (It is telling that while Gauguin ...

The postman stares ahead ... and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) (Camille and Marcelle) Roulin died in Marseilles in 1903. His youngest child, Marcelle, was to eventually ...

Van Gogh was a terrible cook, as Paul Gauguin recalled: “Vincent wanted to make a soup ... three years before the postman’s death. He was paid only 450 francs, or just over 50 francs (then ...

It’s one of the most beloved paintings in the MFA’s own collection. Vincent van Gogh's "Postman Joseph Roulin" (center) and Frans Hals’ "Merry Drinker" (left) installed in the MFA's exhibit ...

At the beginning of 1888, Vincent van Gogh, about to turn 35 years old, moved from Paris, where proximity to the Impressionists had expanded his abilities as a painter, to the Provençal town of ...

Vincent van Gogh. The Postman (Joseph-Étienne Roulin), 1889, Oil on canvas. Vincent van Gogh. The Postman (Joseph-Étienne Roulin), 1889, Oil on canvas. The Barnes Foundation Tame as the Paris ...

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.

The postman and the artist met soon ... Some of the letters were sent to Van Gogh’s family after Joseph visited Vincent in the hospital after his breakdown. (It is telling that while Gauguin ...