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The format is that of the pendant pairs of marital portraits common in seventeenth-century Dutch painting. She is also a seated, three-quarter-length composition, but faces left. His first portrait of Roulin, a seated, three-quarter-length painting in which the sitter is facing to our right, is close to the portrait of Madame Roulin. The project was conceived in the summer of 1888, pursued during that autumn, and finally accomplished in 1889. So he planned to paint the family of the disaffected republican Roulin, the postman. His project was both reactionary and utopian, and inevitably more limited. Order to print Delivery: 4-6 working days. The plan never came to fruition, and the artist became lonely and isolated. Van Gogh had moved to Arles in 1888, hoping to create an artists cooperative there. Van Gogh wanted to achieve a comparable social representation, but the social relations of modern times were not as sane and healthy as in theirs. Fine Art Print Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh. This portrait of Joseph Roulin is one of six van Gogh painted of his close friend, a postal employee in the southern French town of Arles, a fifteen-hour train ride from Paris. In their work, viewed as a whole, they produced a 'portrait' of a whole society, a lively, healthy and sane republic. Hals and Rembrandt, he argued, had been first and foremost portraitists, but not in the sense of mere producers of facial resemblances. In his letters to Émile Bernard van Gogh often expounded his conception of the portrait, illustrating his argument with constant reference to seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture.
