The French Postal Worker Who Sat for Van Gogh

The French Postal Worker Who Sat for Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, “Postman Joseph Roulin” (1888) (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)“A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes, high-coloured full cheeks, a big beard, pepper and salt, big ears.” That’s how Vincent van Gogh described postal worker Joseph Roulin in an 1888 letter to his sister, five months after abruptly leaving Paris for southern France with the intention of following in the …

The Administrative Court of Appeal of Versailles annulled a decree of the City of Auvers-sur-Oise and gave reason to the owners of the land where the "Racines" of Van Gogh are located.