Vincent van Gogh - La Berceuse Augustine Roulin 1889
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La Berceuse Augustine Roulin 1889
93x74cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA:
Of the five versions of Van Gogh’s portrait of Augustine Roulin, wife of his friend the postmaster of Arles, the present canvas is the one the sitter chose for herself. Van Gogh remarked that "she had a good eye and took the best." He began the portraits just before his breakdown in Arles, in December 1888, and completed them in early 1889, calling them "La Berceuse," meaning "lullaby, or woman who rocks the cradle," indicated by the rope held in the sitter’s hand, which is attached to the unseen cradle.