Adeline Ravoux
1890 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 50.2 × 50.5 cm
Collection: Art Whisperer
In May 1890, Van Gogh left the south and settled 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.” The young Adeline Ravoux was not at all pleased with her portrait.
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About this artwork
Adeline Ravoux (1890) by Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert in the southern Netherlands, the son of a pastor. In 1869, he took his first job, working in the Hague branch of an international art dealing firm. He began to write to his younger brother Theo, a correspondence which continued for the rest of Van Gogh's life.
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