COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1958.31
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Paintings
Creator Name:
Gogh, Vincent Van
Creator Nationality:
European; Dutch
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Dates/Places:
1853 - 1890
Gender:
M
Creator Name-CRT:
Vincent van Gogh
Title:
Adeline Ravoux
Title Type:
Primary
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
1890
Creation Start Date:
1890
Creation End Date:
1890
Materials and Techniques:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Unframed: 50.2cm x 50.5cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1958.31
Credit Line:
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
Context:
In May 1890 Van Gogh left southern France to live in Auvers, a small town just north of Paris, where he rented a room at the inn of Arthur Ravoux. A month after his arrival he painted three portraits of Ravoux's sixteen-year-old daughter, Adeline. Although known for his landscapes, Van Gogh's greatest ambition was to paint portraits. "I should like to paint portraits," he wrote to his sister, "which a hundred years from now will seem to people of those days like apparitions. Thus I do not attempt to achieve this through photographic resemblance, but through our impassioned aspects, using our science and our modern taste for color as a means of expression and of exaltation of color." This painting presents Adeline Ravoux not as an individual, but as a symbol of the eternal woman, set against the infinite blue night like a radiant star.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.1958.31.tif
