1890, Vincent van Gogh, L'Arlesienne (portrait of Madame Ginoux) -- Kroller-Muller Museum (Otterlo)
From the museum label: In Arles, Van Gogh develops a close friendship with Joseph-Michel Ginoux and his wife Marie, the owners of Café de la Gare, where he spends many hours. In the asylum at Saint-Rémy he paints five virtually identical portraits of Marie, after a drawing that Paul Gauguin made of her over a year earlier. Van Gogh calls the work L'Arlésienne, which makes it clear that he is less interested in making a portrait with a good likeness than in depicting a particular type. Gauguin reacts enthusiastically to one example which he receives as a gift: 'Very fine and very curious, I like it better than my drawing. Despite your ailing state you have never worked with so much balance.'
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1890, Vincent van Gogh, L'Arlesienne (portrait of Madame Ginoux) -- Kroller-Muller Museum (Otterlo)
From the museum label: In Arles, Van Gogh develops a close friendship with Joseph-Michel Ginoux and his wife Marie, the owners of Café de la Gare, where he spends many hours. In the asylum at Saint-Rémy he paints five virtually identical portraits of Marie, after a drawing that Paul Gauguin made of her over a year earlier. Van Gogh calls the work L'Arlésienne, which makes it clear that he is less interested in making a portrait with a good likeness than in depicting a particular type. Gauguin reacts enthusiastically to one example which he receives as a gift: 'Very fine and very curious, I like it better than my drawing. Despite your ailing state you have never worked with so much balance.'
Link to other van Gogh paintings