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La Mousmé, Sitting 1888 Painter on His Way to Work 1888 Sunny Lawn in a Public Park 1888 Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin 1888 Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin 1888 Coal Barges 1888 Coal Barges 1888
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin 1888

Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin 1888
81x65cm oil/canvas
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

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From Boston Museum of Fine Arts:
One of van Gogh’s closest friends and favorite sitters in Arles was the local postman, Joseph Roulin. While painting this work, van Gogh wrote to his brother, “I am now at work with another model, a postman in blue uniform, trimmed with gold, a big bearded face, very like Socrates.” Indeed, the modest postman has all the authority of an admiral. Van Gogh also painted several portraits of Madame Roulin, as well as images of their children, delighted, as he wrote, to depict “a whole family.”