The French Postal Worker Who Sat for Van Gogh

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“A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes, high-coloured full cheeks, a big beard, pepper and salt, big ears.” That’s how Vincent van Gogh described postal worker Joseph Roulin in an 1888 letter to his sister, five months after abruptly leaving Paris for southern France with the intention of following in the footsteps of artists like Paul Cézanne and Adolphe Monticelli to the port city of Marseilles.

But the Provençal town of Arles ultimately took hold of the Dutch painter, and over the course of 15 months, van Gogh churned out an abundance of works, capturing countryside landscapes, potted sunflowers, street scenes, and his own image. It was also during this period that he befriended Roulin, the blue-uniformed postal worker who quickly became one of his favorite subjects — and whose likeness is now at the center of a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

“Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” delves into the artist’s 26-portrait series focused on Roulin, his wife Augustine, and their three children, Armand, Camille, and Marcelle.

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