Portrait of Madame Roulin

Portrait of Madame Roulin
Portrait of Madame Roulin
Artist	Paul Gauguin
Year	November 1888
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	51 cm × 64 cm (20 in × 25 in)
Location	St Louis Museum of Art, St Louis

ArtistPaul Gauguin

YearNovember 1888

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions51 cm × 64 cm (20 in × 25 in)

Portrait of Madame Roulin is an oil on canvas portrait by Paul Gauguin of Augustine Roullin (née Pellicot; 1851-1930), wife of the postman Joseph Roulin (1841-1903). It is now in the St Louis Museum of Art.^[1]

It was painted at the end of November 1888 during Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh's joint stay in Arles, where the latter artist also painted the Roulin family.^[2]

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Paintings	List of paintings Mette Asleep on a Sofa (1875) Study of a Nude (1880) Still Life with Profile of Laval (1886) Still Life with a Sketch after Delacroix (c. 1887) Vision after the Sermon (1888) The Painter of Sunflowers (1888) Landscape near Arles (1888) The White River (1888) Portrait of Madeleine Bernard (1888) The Wave (1888) Portrait of Madame Roulin (1888) Fields by the Sea (1889) The Beautiful Angel (1889) Fruits on a Table (1889) The Schuffenecker Family (1889) The Flageolet Player on the Cliff (1889) The Yellow Christ (1889) The Green Christ (1889) Christ on the Mount of Olives (1889) Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake (1889) Still Life with Head-Shaped Vase and Japanese Woodcut (1889) Self-Portrait with the Yellow Christ (c. 1890–91) Tahitian Women on the Beach (1891) Tahitian Woman with a Flower (1891) A Man with an Axe (1891) Ia Orana Maria (1891) The Bunch of Flowers (1891) Conversation (1891) Early Evening (1892) Landscape with Peacocks (Death) (1892) Parau na te varua ino (1892) Vahine no te vi (1892) Vairumati tei Oa (1892) Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) (1892) Arearea (1892) Spirit of the Dead Watching (1892) Te Fare (1892) When Will You Marry? (1892) Aha Oe Feii? (1892) Arii Matamoe (1892) The Siesta (1892–1894) Merahi metua no Tehamana (1893) Otahi (1893) Self-Portrait in a Hat (1893) Mahana no atua (1894) Nave nave moe (1894) Arearea no varua ino (1894) The Cellist (1894) Breton Peasant Women (1894) Eiaha Ohipa (1896) Nave Nave Mahana (1896) Te tamari no atua (1896) The Queen (1896) Vairumati (1897) Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897/1898) Nevermore (1897) Two Tahitian Women (1899) The Great Buddha (1899) Tahitian Woman and Boy (1899) Landscape, Horse on the Road (1899) The Call (1902) Still Life with Exotic Birds (1902) Landscape with a Pig and a Horse (1903)
Other works	Jug in the Form of a Head, Self-Portrait (1889) Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses (wood panel, 1889) Objet décoratif carré avec dieux tahitiens (sculpture, 1893–1895) Oviri (ceramic sculpture, 1895)
Periodicals	Le Sourire (1899–1900)
Exhibitions	Les XX, 1889 The Volpini Exhibition, 1889
Museums	Paul Gauguin Museum (Tahiti) Paul Gauguin Cultural Center (Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands) Paul Gauguin Interpretation Centre (Martinique)
People	Jean René Gauguin (son) Pola Gauguin (son) Paul René Gauguin (grandson) Flora Tristan (grandmother) Émile Bernard Vincent van Gogh Meijer de Haan Charles Laval George-Daniel de Monfreid Camille Pissarro Émile Schuffenecker Theo van Gogh Ambroise Vollard
Related	The Moon and Sixpence (1942 film) Lust for Life (1956 film) Rebel in Paradise (1960 film) The Wolf at the Door (1986 film) Paradise Found (2003 film) Gauguin: Off the Beaten Track (2013 comic book) At Eternity's Gate (2018 film) Gauguin (crater) Paul Gauguin Cruises ship

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