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| L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911) |
Artist:Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)
Date:1888–89
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:36 x 29 in. (91.4 x 73.7 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951
Accession Number:51.112.3
While in Arles, Van Gogh painted two very similar portraits of Marie Ginoux, the proprietress of the Café de la Gare, wearing the regional costume of the legendary dark-haired beauties of Arles. The first version, which he described in a letter of November 1888 as "an Arlésienne . . . knocked off in one hour," must be the more thinly and summarily executed portrait in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. In it a parasol and gloves lie on the table instead of books. This portrait belonged to the sitter until she sold it in 1895.
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