Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: public domain (CC0) · Museum record & image source ↗
Netherlands · 1890
Adeline Ravoux
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- 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.)
- Country / context
- Netherlands
- Movement / tradition
- Post-Impressionism · Source ↗
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- European and American art ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM
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.”
Collection text · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A MOMENT TO LOOK
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