Vincent van Gogh - L'Arlesienne Madame Ginoux with Books 1888
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L'Arlesienne Madame Ginoux with Books 1888
91x73cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA:
While in Arles, Van Gogh painted two very similar portraits of Marie Ginoux, the proprietress of the Café de la Gare, wearing the regional costume of the legendary dark-haired beauties of Arles. The first version, which he described in a letter of November 1888 as "an Arlésienne . . . knocked off in one hour," must be the more thinly and summarily executed portrait in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. In it a parasol and gloves lie on the table instead of books. This portrait belonged to the sitter until she sold it in 1895.