In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the Dutch artist, it was also remarkably productive: He befriended Joseph ...

Vincent van Gogh, The Postman Joseph Roulin (1888). Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “It was super unusual for someone to make that kind of extended portraiture campaign of a ...

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ... Vincent van Gogh, “Postman Joseph Roulin,” 1888.

Van Gogh’s drawing of Joseph Roulin, in Los Angeles (August 1888, upper left), and three of the paintings, in Winterthur (December 1888, upper right), Otterlo (early 1889, lower left) and New ...

Vincent van Gogh, The Schoolboy (The Postman’s Son—Boy in Cap), 1888. Oil on canvas. Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Doação (Gift) Seabra Cia. de Tecidos, ...

Vincent van Gogh's "Postman Joseph Roulin" (center) and Frans Hals’ "Merry Drinker" (left) installed in the MFA's exhibit "Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits." (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts ...

Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits is the first exhibition to be devoted to the paintings of the “postman” and his family. Opening soon at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (30 March-7 ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh created of the postman and his wife and children in the late 1880s.

Vincent van Gogh. The Postman (Joseph-Étienne Roulin), 1889, Oil on canvas. The Barnes Foundation. Tame as the Paris purchases might seem to jaded 21st-century eyes, they ...

Postman Joseph Roulin, Vincent van Gogh, 1888 Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the ...

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, reveal a wildly immediate inner life.