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1889, Vincent van Gogh, L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

From the museum label: 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 "an Arlésienne ... knocked off in one hour," must be the more thinly and summarily executed portrait in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. In it a parasol and gloves lie on the table instead of books. This portrait belonged to the sitter until she sold it in 1895.

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Uploaded on November 13, 2019
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