The image size is 9.75 x 7.5 inches on an 11 x 14 white ground, allowing it to fit into our standard 11 x 14 inch frame. The bright white base color and smooth matte finish allows for the highest quality reproduction possible. The Postman Painting By Vincent Van Gogh. Printed with archival-quality pigment inks on high-resolution, large-format twelve-color printers, the substrate is an acid-free and lignin-free 230gsm coated fine art paper. Artwork thumbnail, The Postman Painting By Vincent Van Gogh by quackynaut. Here, the artist concentrated on Roulin's head, which he described in a letter as 'somewhat like Socrates, hardly any nose at all, a high forehead, bald crown, little gray eyes, bright red chubby cheeks, a big pepper-and-salt beard, large eyes.' Between late July 1888 and April 1889, he painted at least six portraits of Joseph-Etienne Roulin (1841–1903), a postman in Arles. In February 1888 Van Gogh moved to Arles, in the south of France, and continued to paint landscapes and portraits. The original oil on canvas work is in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin is a Post-Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting created by Vincent Van Gogh in 1888. Buy Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin I by Vincent van Gogh as a wall art print at Posterlounge: Many materials & sizes available Picture frames.

Indeed, the modest postman has all the authority of an. While painting this work, van Gogh wrote to his brother, I am now at work with another model, a postman in blue uniform, trimmed with gold, a big bearded face, very like Socrates. Print of Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Postman Roulin, 1888. One of van Gogh ’s closest friends and favorite sitters in Arles was the local postman, Joseph Roulin.

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