Vincent van Gogh

Augustine Roulin (La Berceuse)



Vincent van Gogh - Augustine Roulin (La Berceuse)



Vincent van Gogh
Augustine Roulin (La Berceuse)
1888
92.7 x 72.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Inscribed lower right, along chair: La Berceuse
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bequest of John T. Spaulding


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Vincent van Gogh - Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La Berceuse)
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Vincent van Gogh - Augustine Roulin (La Berceuse)
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Vincent van Gogh - Augustine Roulin (La Berceuse)
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Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
F 508
JH 1671

Literature
Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger, Vincent van Gogh, Köln, 1993, p. 483
Klaus Albrecht Schröder and Heinz Widauer, Sjraar van Heugten und Marije Vellekoop (eds.), Van Gogh, Köln; Wien, 2008, p. 344, fig. 4
Louis van Tilborgh, Teio Meedendorp, Ella Hendriks, Don H. Johnson, C. Richard Johnson Jr and Robert G. Erdmann, Weave matching and dating of Van Gogh's paintings: an interdisciplinary approach in Burlington Magazine, 1307, 2012 pp. 112-122, fig. 26
Eliza E. Rathbone, William H. Robinson, Elizabeth Steele, and Marcia Steele, Van Gogh repetitions, New Haven; Washington, D.C., 2013, fig. 68 (X-radiograph)
Martin Bailey, The Sunflowers Are Mine, London, 2013, fig. 45



Provenance

probably passed from the artist to his brother, Theo van Gogh (born 1857 - died 1891), Paris
consigned by Theo van Gogh to Julien-François Tanguy (born 1825 - died 1894), Paris
1905, purchased at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris, by Count Antoine de la Rochefoucauld, Paris
sold by the Count de la Rochefoucauld to Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York
1928, sold by Paul Rosenberg to John Taylor Spaulding (born 1870 - died 1948), Boston
1948, bequest of John Taylor Spaulding to the MFA, accession date 3 June 1948

External links

Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 48.548

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