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Detail of Madame Roulin by Van Gogh in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Detail of Madame Roulin by Van Gogh in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010
Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse)
1889
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (worked in France), 1853–1890

Dimensions: 92.7 x 72.7 cm (36 1/2 x 28 5/8 in.)

Medium or Technique: Oil on canvas

Classification: Paintings
Type: Portrait - Single - Female

Accession Number: 48.548

Van Gogh painted Augustine Roulin, the wife of Joseph Roulin, in bold, exaggerated colors against a vividly patterned background; the rope in her hands leads to a cradle. At right, the painter inscribed the title "La Berceuse," which means both "lullaby" and "she who rocks the cradle." Van Gogh once wrote, "I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize, and which we seek to convey by the actual radiance and vibration of our coloring."

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/lullaby-madame-augustine-r...

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