![]() Sincere thanks, too, to Timothy Baikie for his exhaustive revisions of the English version. ![]() ![]() Many thanks to Enrique Pareja and his wife for their hard work in providing the English and Spanish versions. Article: "Van Gogh and the Roulin Family".Information about the Roulins isn't easy to come by (the article below is more than 45 years old), but I'm always looking for more background material. I'd like this section to not only serve as an amalgamated listing of the Roulin portraits, but I also hope to create a more in-depth exploration of this family. Thanks to the old postman, Joseph Roulin, and his family-to their kindness toward this eccentric and troubled painter-Vincent was able to produce some of his best loved works. In total, Van Gogh painted or sketched 25 works of the Roulin family-each of which is listed below. Always challenged to find willing subjects for his portraits, Vincent found the Roulins to be extremely accommodating and patient. In many respects, the Roulin family were Vincent's only friends in Arles. A number of Vincent's letters to his brother, Theo, reflect his isolation and his loneliness.Īnd yet one family welcomed Vincent and encouraged his work. Called "fou-rou" (crazy red-head) by many of the townspeople of Arles, Vincent was often viewed with suspicion and scorn. Many of Van Gogh's most renowned works originated in Arles.Īnd yet, at the period in which Vincent was at his most productive, he was alone. After years of study and struggle Vincent moved to the south in an attempt to further explore his art. Vincent van Gogh's time in Arles, France was a pivotal point in his life. I've had an interest in the Roulin family for a long while now. I have made portraits of a whole family, that of the postman whose head I had done previously-the man, his wife, the baby, the little boy, and the son of sixteen, all characters and very French, though the first has the look of a Russian."
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