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Adeline Ravoux
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About this work
In May 1890, Vincent van Gogh arrived in Auvers, a small town north of Paris, where he rented a room at the inn of Arthur Ravoux. This portrait, completed during the last months of the artist’s life, depicts Ravoux’s 13-year-old daughter, Adeline. Van Gogh wrote that rather than photographic resemblance, he wanted his portraits to convey the “impassioned aspects” of contemporary life through the “modern taste for color.”
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineAdeline Ravoux, 1890. Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890). Oil on fabric; framed: 72.5 x 73.5 x 8.5 cm (28 9/16 x 28 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 50.2 x 50.5 cm (19 3/4 x 19 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1958.31
