Roulin's Baby
1888
Painter, Dutch, 1853 - 1890
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 83
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 35 x 23.9 cm (13 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
framed: 53.9 x 42.5 cm (21 1/4 x 16 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1963.10.31
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mme Jules Armand (Joséphine Ronin), Arles.[1] (A. Mak, Amsterdam). (Galerie Étienne Bignou, Paris), on joint account with (Hodebert, Paris [at some point on consignment with Alex Reid and Lefèvre]); sold by (Bignou and Hodebert) to (Kraushaar Galleries, New York);[2] sold 9 March 1927 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] The painting has been said to have been given to the hospital in Arles where van Gogh stayed and afterwards sold by the hospital. However, a letter dated 7 April 1966 from R. Chambrelan, Directeur des Hospices Civils D'Arles, now in NGA curatorial files, indicates that the painting was never owned by the hospital. Jules Armand was a grocer and merchant from whom Van Gogh bought paint and canvas while in the town.
[2] Letters dated 9 March 1927 and 10 March 1927 from Kraushaar to Dale indicate that the painting had been shipped from Paris and acknowledge Dale's payment. (See Kraushaar Galleries Records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Outgoing Letters 1920-1945, Box 1, Folder 43, and Incoming Letters 1901-1944, Box 11, folder 33; copies in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1928
Loan Exhibition of Modern French Art from the Chester Dale Collection for the Benefit of the French Hospital of New York, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 1928, no. 16
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
1998
Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1998-1999, not in catalogue (shown only in Washington).
Bibliography
1923
Coquiot, Gustave. Vincent van Gogh. Paris, 1923: 179.
1928
"Exhibitions in New York." The Arts 16, no. 5 (November 1928): 268, repro.
Faille, J.-B. de la. L'Oeuvre de Vincent Van Gogh, catalogue raisonné. 4 vols. Paris and Brussels, 1928: 1:no. 440; 2:repro.
1929
Dale, Maud. "French Art in the Chester Dale Collection." Art News (27 April 1929): 46, repro.
Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 65, repro.
Stokvis, Benno. "Vincent van Gogh in Arles." Kunst und Künstler 27 (1929): 474.
1937
Scherjon, W., and Jos. de Gruyter. Vincent van Gogh's Great Period: Arles, St. Rémy and Auvers sur Oise (Complete Catalogue). Amsterdam, 1937: 154-155, no. 126, repro.
1939
Faille, J.-B. de la. Vincent Van Gogh. New York and Paris, 1939: 340, no. 440, repro.
1951
Leymarie, Jean. Van Gogh. Paris, 1951: 119, no. 102.
1955
Priou, J.-N. "Van Gogh et la famille Roulin.” Revue des PTT de France 2 (May–June 1955): 26-32.
1963
Kuh, Katherine. "The Artist Looks at Children." Saturday Review of Literature (14 December 1963): 36.
1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 126, repro.
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 59.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 52, repro.
1970
Faille, J.-B. de la. The Works of Vincent van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings. Amsterdam, 1970: no. F440, repro.
1973
Pickvance, Ronald. "The new de la Faille." The Burlington Magazine 115 (March 1973): 176.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 156, repro.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: repro. 524.
1980
Hulsker, Jan. The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, drawings, sketches. New York, 1980: 378-380, no. 1639, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 520, no. 779, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 179, repro.
1994
Walther, Ingo F., and Rainer Metzger. Vincent van Gogh: Sämtliche Gemälde. 2 vols. Cologne, 1994: 2:462, repro.
2000
Pickvance, Ronald. Van Gogh. Exh. cat. Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 2000: 305-306, no. 71.
Van Gogh: Face to Face. The Portraits, Exh. cat. The Detroit Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art. Detroit, 2000-2001: 164-171.
2001
Druick, Douglas, and Peter Kort Zegers. Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South. Exh. cat. Art institute of Chicago; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Chicago and New York, 2001: 227-234, repro.
2013
Rathbone, Eliza E., William H. Robinson, Elizabeth Steele, and Marcia Steele. Van Gogh Repetitions. Exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington; Cleveland Museum of Art. New Haven and London, 2013: 113, 117, repro. (detail) 112, 114 fig. 53.
2014
Kelly, Simon. “Van Gogh’s Repetitions: Washington and Cleveland.” The Burlington Magazine 156, no. 1336 (2014): 490.
2019
Pilz, Kathrin, Louis van Tilborgh, Muriel Geldof, and Ann Hoenigswald. "Vincent van Gogh's Three Portraits of Marcelle Rouin." Facture: conservation, science, art history 4 (2019): 128-155, 129 unummbered fig. (detail), figs. 3, 7(c) (detail), 8 (c) (detail), 10 (c) (detail), 11 (c).
Wikidata ID
Q20189957