Adeline Ravoux
Vincent van Gogh · 1890
In May 1890, Vincent van Gogh arrived in Auvers, a small town north of Paris, where he rented a room at the inn of Arthur Ravoux. This portrait, completed during the last months of the artist’s life, depicts Ravoux’s 13-year-old daughter, Adeline. Van Gogh wrote that rather than photographic resemblance, he wanted his portraits to convey the “impassioned aspects” of contemporary life through the “modern taste for color.”
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Dimensions
- Framed: 72.5 x 73.5 x 8.5 cm (28 9/16 x 28 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 50.2 x 50.5 cm (19 3/4 x 19 7/8 in.)
- Credit
- Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
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- Vincent van Gogh — curated by Mooseium Curator
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