Print by Vincent van Gogh - La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin) - 1889
Vincent van Gogh - La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin)
Year: December 1888-January 1889 - oil on canvas cm 73x92
Preserved at: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands.
The painting depicts Augustine Roulin, wife of the postman friend of Vincent Van Gogh. With a humble gaze, Augustine Roulin's hands grip the cord with which he swung the cradle, ("berceuse" in French means "she who cradles").