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L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

1888–89
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 825
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: 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 × 29 in. (91.4 × 73.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951
  • Object Number: 51.112.3
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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