Print by Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of the postman Joseph Roulin - 1888
Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of the postman Joseph Roulin
Year: 1888 - oil on canvas 65.4x81.3 cm
Preserved at: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.
This is one of the portraits Vincent van Gogh made of Joseph Roulin, the postman at the train station in Arles, Provence, where the painter had moved in February 1888.
A sincere feeling of esteem and affection immediately arose between Vincent van Gogh and Joseph Roulin, which the painter expressed in a letter to his brother Theo: "Roulin is certainly not old enough to be a father to me, and yet he demonstrates that particular gravity towards me and that tenderness that an old soldier might have towards a young one. .. a man who is neither embittered, nor sad, nor perfect, nor happy, nor always blamelessly equanimous. But he is such a good person, so wise and full of soul, and so confident "