Vincent van Gogh - Mother Roulin with Her Baby 1888
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Mother Roulin with Her Baby 1888
63x51cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
This vigorously painted portrait of Augustine Roulin and her infant daughter, Marcelle, is one of Van Gogh’s many evocative renderings of the Roulin family, undertaken some six months after the artist relocated from Paris to Arles. Van Gogh painted the entire family of the local postman Joseph Roulin. Here, the chubbycheeked infant is the focus of the enterprise. Her heightened expression in thickly painted brushwork suggests that the baby may have posed for van Gogh, swaddled in her mother’s embrace. Augustine Roulin, by contrast, is an abbreviated presence.