The artist met Joseph Roulin, a 47-year-old postal worker, in the late 1880s. The series of artworks will be reunited at ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin ...

It was ambiguously listed as a “portrait of a man,” and it wasn’t until 1924 that the biographer Jacob Baart de la Faille identified the sitter as Rey while working on Van Gogh’s catalogue ...

Van Gogh’s The Harvest (July 1888) and Portrait of Patience Escalier (August 1888) Van Gogh and Paul Cezanne were the great inspirers for the young Matisse. In 1898 Matisse had painted his own ...

Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits is ... the family of the postman whose head I did before—the man, his wife, the baby, the young boy and the 16-year-old [he had actually turned 17] son ...

It’s “one of the most impressive portrait series ... family of the postman,” van Gogh wrote to his brother in late 1888. “The man, his wife, the baby, the young boy and the 16-year-old ...