Paintings
Adeline Ravoux
Painting
Details
- Author / creator
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- 1890
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 72.5 × 73.5 × 8.5 cm; Unframed: 50.2 × 50.5 cm
- Support
- Other
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- Netherlands
- Acquisition method
- Bequest
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Sir Frederick Ashcombe, 1958
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
In May 1890, Vincent van Gogh arrived in Auvers, a small town north of Paris, where he rented a room at the inn of Arthur Ravoux. This portrait, completed during the last months of the artist’s life, depicts Ravoux’s 13-year-old daughter, Adeline. Van Gogh wrote that rather than photographic resemblance, he wanted his portraits to convey the “impassioned aspects” of contemporary life through the “modern taste for color.”
Materials and technique
Oil on fabric
