Painted during van Gogh’s stay with the la famille Roulin in Arles, France. “… 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.” (Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo, c. December 4, 1888)Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum.  necspenecmetu: Vincent Willem van Gogh, The Postman Roulin, 1889

Painted during van Gogh’s stay with the la famille Roulin in Arles, France. 
“… 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.” (Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo, c. December 4, 1888)

Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum. 

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Vincent Willem van Gogh, The Postman Roulin, 1889

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