LArlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
1888–89 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 36 x 29 in. (91.4 x 73.7 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951
While in Arles, Van Gogh painted two very similar portraits of Marie Ginoux, the proprietress of the Café de la Gare, wearing the regional costume of the legendary dark-haired beauties of Arles. The first version, which he described in a letter of November 1888 as
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LArlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911) (1888–89) by Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 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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