Portrait of Postman Roulin
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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Canvas: 25 1/4 x 18 7/8 in. (64.1 x 47.9 cm)
Framed: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (88.3 x 73.0 x 8.3 cm)
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II
- Accession No.
- 1996.25
- Provenance
- Paris, Collection Theo van Gogh;
By descent to Amsterdam, Collection Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (up to 1910);
Berlin, Gallery Paul Cassirer (dealer-acquired from Mrs. J. van Gogh-Bonger in June 1910);
Berlin, Collection J. Freudenberg (acquired from Cassirer by 1915);
New York, Collection Arnold Seligmann;
New York, Wildenstein & Co. (dealer);
Grosse Pointe, Collection Edsel and Eleonor Ford (acquired from Wildenstein in 1935);
by descent to Mrs. Walter Ford, by whom given to the DIA in 1992 and 1996.
Published References
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, "Exhibition", 1905, cat. 443 (lent by Mrs. J. van Gogh- Bonger).
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, "Exposition", 1908, cat. 54.
Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, "Ausstellung", 1908, cat. 16.
Frankfurt-am-Main, Kunstverein, "Ausstellung", 1908, cat. 55.
Zurich, Künstlerhaus, "Ausstellung", 1908, cat. 30.
Munich, Brakl-Frankfurt, Kunstverein--Dresden, Ernst Anold--Chemnitz, Kunstsalon Gerstenberger, "Ausstellung", 1909-1910, cat. 28 (cat. only exists for Munich).
Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, "Ausstellung", 1910, cat. 41.
¦Kunst und Künstler,¦ vol. 9, V, Feb., 1911, p. 227.
¦L'art décoratif,¦ vol.13, no. 156, p.83, Sept., 1911.
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, "Ausstellung", 1921.
Dresden, "Ausstellung", 1926, cat. 211.
Faille, J.-B. de la, ¦L'Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh,¦ Paris & Brussels, 1928, vol.1, p. 122, no. 433, vol. 2, pl. XCLVIII.
Faille, J.-B. de la, ¦L'Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh,¦ Paris, p. 334, no. 466.
Faille, J.-B. de la, ¦The Works of Vincent van Gogh,¦ Amsterdam, 1970, p. 202, no. 433, repr.
Lecaldono, P., ¦L'Opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh,¦ Milan, vol. 2, p. 211, no. 541, repr.
Hulsker, J., ¦The Complete Van Gogh,¦ New York, 1977, pp. 342, 344-345, 349, fig. 1524. (Revised edition, see below, 1996)
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Van Gogh in Arles,", 1984, pp. 152-153, cat. 88, repr.
Feilchenfeldt, W., ¦Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cassirer, Berlin¦, Zwolle, 1988, p. 94, no. F433 (ill.).
Goldner, G, ¦European Drawings I. Catalogue of the Collections,¦ coll. cat. of J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1988, pp. 238-239, repr. (cited under cat. 106).
Hulsker, J., "Van Gogh, Roulin and the two Arlesiennes, a re-examination: Part II." ¦Burlington Magazine¦, vol. 134, November, 1992, pp. 707 -715, esp. p. 708.
New York, auction (Christie's) 11 May, 1995, pp. 46-51, discussed under lot 116, fig. 1.
Hulsker, J., ¦The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches,¦ Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 1996, pp. 342, 349, no. 1524, repr. (31 July-3 August, 1888).
Toyota (Japan), Municipal Museum of Art, "Message 1995", (exh. organized by DIA and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art), Nov., 1995-Jan., 1996, pp. 60, 203, cat. 15, repr.
Walther, I. F., & Metzger, R., ¦Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Paintings,¦Cologne, 1997, p. 393, repr. (as collection Walter Ford).
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, "Dossier van Gogh I ritratti Roulin, l'Arlesiana, il Gardiniere", 1999-2000, pp. 26-27, repr. (cat. by G. Piantoni).
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts--Boston, Museum of Fine Arts--Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Van Gogh: Face to Face--The Portraits" 2000-2001, p. 238, fig. 215 (exh. organized by George Keyes, George T. M. Shackelford and Joseph J. Rishel).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; "The Portraits of Joseph Roulin," 2001. (exh. organized by Kirk Varnedoe) (no catalogue only a pamphlet - see file)
Johnson, K., "Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman, Please. Keep Still!", ¦New York Times,¦ Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2001, pp. B1, B3, repr.
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum -- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Vinccent van Gogh: The Drawings," American exh. cat., 2005, p. 234, color repro fig. 159 (not in exhibition; in entry for cat. no. 81)
Vienna, Albertina, "Van Gogh," exh. cat. 2008, cat. 98, p. 338-340, Il., p. 339; il. p. 82 (detail)
