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Vincent van Gogh: La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)  wikidata:Q19911437 reasonator:Q19911437
Artist
Vincent van Gogh  (1853–1890)  wikidata:Q5582 s:en:Author:Vincent van Gogh q:en:Vincent van Gogh
 
Vincent van Gogh
Alternative names
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 30 March 1853 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1890 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Zundert Edit this at Wikidata Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period between circa 1880 and circa July 1890
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Netherlands (Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886
date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
),
Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889),
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5582
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Series title La Berceuse Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Augustine Roulin Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1889
date QS:P571,+1889-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 92.7 cm (36.4 in); width: 73.7 cm (29 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,92.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,73.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
1996.435
Place of creation Arles Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1996, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Notes
English: Of the five versions of Van Gogh's portrait of Augustine Roulin, wife of his friend the postmaster of Arles, the present canvas is the one the sitter chose for herself. Van Gogh remarked that "she had a good eye and took the best." He began the portraits just before his breakdown in Arles, in December 1888, and completed them in early 1889. As he worked on the successive versions, the composition (which he titled "La Berceuse," meaning "lullaby, or woman who rocks the cradle," indicated by the rope the sitter holds) took on added meaning. As he revealed in his letters, the maternal image became the locus of literary and symbolic associations, ranging from the writings of Dutch and French novelists to the consoling music of Berlioz and Wagner. Van Gogh envisioned "La Berceuse" as the center of a triptych, flanked by "Sunflowers," like candelabra.[1]
  1. ↑ Metropolitan Museum of Art
References
Source/Photographer metmuseum.org

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