Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital 1889
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Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital 1889
61x46cm oil/canvas
Solothurn, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Dubi-Muller Foundation
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From Letter to Theo, Saint-Rémy 7/8 September 1889
I have done a portrait of the attendant, and I have a duplicate of it for you. This makes a rather curious contrast with the portrait I have done of myself, in which the look is vague and veiled, whereas he has something military in his small quick black eyes.
I have made him a present of it and I shall do his wife too if she wants to sit. She is a faded woman, an unhappy, resigned creature of small account, so insignificant that I have a great longing to paint that dusty blade of grass. I have talked to her sometimes when doing some olive trees behind their little house, and she told me then that she did not believe I was ill--and indeed, you would say the same thing yourself now if you could see me working, my brain so clear and my fingers so sure that I have drawn that "Pieta" by Delacroix without taking a single measurement.