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648 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 24 or Wednesday, 25 July 1888.
in note 3:
This model was the postman Joseph Roulin: see letter 652.
652 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in translation:
...ry Socratic. A raging republican, like père Tanguy. A more interesting man than many people.postman
in note 7:
In a letter to Willemien van Gogh, Roulin described himself as ‘Entreposeur des Postes’ and gave ...
653 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in translation:
I’m now working on the portrait of a postman with his dark blue uniform with yellow.
...t, reasons very well and knows many things. His wife gave birth today and so he’s in really fine fe...
in note 3:
...as Joseph Roulin (F 432 / JH 1522). For the comparison of Roulin with Socrates see letter 652, n. 7.
654 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 3 August 1888.
in note 8:
For the comparison of Roulin with Socrates see letter 652, n. 7.
655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
in note 20:
...(F 433 / JH 1524). See letter 662. See letter 652, n. 7, for the comparison of Roulin with Socrates.
in translation:
I’ve just made a portrait of a postman — or rather, two portraits even — Socratic type, no less...
...oholic, and with a high colour as a result. His wife had just given birth, the good fellow was glowin...
656 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 6 August 1888.
in translation:
...did not only one but even two portraits of my postman, one half-length, with hands, and a life-size ...
...well, and that I also plan to paint his newborn baby shortly. Because his wife has just given birth.
in note 8:
Exactly what Van Gogh gave Roulin is not clear. It may have been one or more copies of the popular po...
662 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 15 August 1888.
in translation:
Now, I’ve kept the large portrait of the postman, and his head enclosed herewith is — a single si...
663 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 18 August 1888.
in translation:
...he drawing I made after this painting, as well as the drawing of the portrait of Roulin the postman.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to paint the postman as I feel him; as a revolutionary this man is l...
in note 3:
...me the postman’s name is mentioned; Van Gogh had evidently misheard it, for he wrote ‘Rollin’.
665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
in note 1:
...d recorded in his portraits of the postman Joseph Roulin; see letter 652, n. 7. Van Gogh also hoped ...
667 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888.
in translation:
If I can get the mother and father to agree to let me paint it, then I’ll do a child in a cradle on...
If I can get the mother and father to agree to let me paint it, then I’ll do a child in a cradle on...
in note 4:
...his plan into effect: he painted the whole Roulin family, including the baby, in December 1888 (cf. ...
669 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
in translation:
But I consulted this postman whom I painted, who has very often set up his little household and dism...
in note 8:
Van Gogh had painted two portraits of Roulin the postman in late July and early August: Joseph Roulin...
676 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 8 September 1888.
in translation:
...reat delight of the lodging-house keeper, the postman whom I’ve already painted, the prowling nigh...
in note 3:
Van Gogh had painted two portraits of Roulin in late July and early August: Joseph Roulin (F 432 / JH...
677 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 September 1888.
in translation:
...I worked at furnishing the house. Just as the postman and his wife told me, the two beds, if you wan...
...rnishing the house. Just as the postman and his wife told me, the two beds, if you want something stu...
in note 3:
Joseph and Augustine Roulin.
691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
in translation:
...e I go to eat supper every day. My friend the postman lives at the bottom of the street on the left,...
in note 4:
Since Roulin lived in rue de la Montagne des Cordes (on the right after the two bridges), Van Gogh mu...
702 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 10 or Thursday, 11 October 1888.
in translation:
... in the open air and in cafés. My friend the postman, for example, lives a great deal in cafés and...
723 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 1 December 1888.
in translation:
... of the postman whose head I did before – the man, his wife, the baby, the young boy and the 16-ye...
...ostman whose head I did before – the man, his wife, the baby, the young boy and the 16-year-old son...
in note 2:
Joseph Roulin and his wife Augustine had two sons and one daughter: Armand (17), Camille (11) and Mar...
Joseph Roulin and his wife Augustine had two sons and one daughter: Armand (17), Camille (11) and Mar...
728 Vincent van Gogh and Félix Rey to Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 2 January 1889.
in note 1:
...d the last letter from Vincent’s friend the postman says, “The doctor will wait a few days befor...
...2023; Brief happiness 1999, p. 83. Doctor Rey, Roulin and the Rev. Frédéric Salles kept Theo inform...
729 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 January 1889.
in translation:
The charwoman and my friend Roulin had taken care of the house, put everything in good order.
in note 1:
...the first time in two weeks, in the company of Roulin, who informed Theo that he and Vincent had spen...
730 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Friday, 4 January 1889.
in translation:
Roulin has been really kind to me, it was he who had the presence of mind to get me out of there befo...
in note 2:
Van Gogh means that Roulin had arranged for him to leave the hospital for a short while on 4 January....
732 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 January 1889.
in translation:
Roulin has been excellent to us, and I dare believe that he’ll remain a staunch friend whom I’ll ...
in note 13:
Roulin had accompanied Van Gogh the first time he was allowed to leave the hospital, on 4 January, an...
734 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, between Tuesday, 8 and Wednesday, 16 January 1889.
in translation:
Thank Roulin for thinking of me. I have indeed received my stretcher keys – at the next opportunity...
735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.
in translation:
Roulin sends his warm regards, he was very pleased with what you said about him in your letter today,...
736 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 17 January 1889.
in translation:
Given to Roulin to pay the charwoman for the month of December
...st day I cheerfully went to have dinner with Roulin at the restaurant, completely reassured and wit...
...t be added the fact that you sent 30 francs to Roulin, out of which he paid the 21.50 for the rent fo...
Roulin’s going to leave, and as early as the 21st, he’s going to be employed in Marseille.
..., he and his wife, are still very, very upset. Roulin has very often kept me company during this past...
...alary is minimal, and he’ll have to leave his wife and his children for a while, who won’t be abl...
And at heart I think they, he and his wife, are still very, very upset. Roulin has very often kept me...
in note 14:
In Marseille Roulin took up the post of ‘courrier-convoyeur’ (an official in the postal carriage ...
...see letter 742, Additional details). Roulin’s wife was staying with their children at her mother’...
in note 8:
Theo had sent Roulin a postal order for 30 francs to pay the rent for December (21.50 francs). Roulin...
738 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 19 January 1889.
in translation:
Roulin is on the point of leaving. His salary here was 135 francs a month, to raise 3 children with t...
...ldren with that and live on it, himself and his wife! You can imagine what that was like. And that is...
in note 7:
Van Gogh compared Roulin to Socrates a number of times; see letter 652, n. 7. The passage on Socrates...
739 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Monday, 21 January 1889.
in translation:
Roulin has had his transfer to Marseille and has just left. It has been touching to see him these las...
...a fresh start on the canvas I had painted of Mrs Roulin, the one which had remained in a vague state ...
in note 5:
... Gogh’s idea of hanging his painting of the Berceuse in a fishing boat was prompted by what Pierre ...
740 To Arnold Koning. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 22 January 1889.
in translation:
..., a few words about mine. At present I have a portrait of a woman on the go, or rather on the easel.
741 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 22 January 1889.
in translation:
... that misfortunes never come singly. Yesterday Roulin left (naturally my dispatch of yesterday was se...
...y, as married people our parents were exemplary, like Roulin and his wife to quote another specimen.
I have the portrait of Roulin’s wife on the go that I was working on before being ill.
...y, as married people our parents were exemplary, like Roulin and his wife to quote another specimen.
744 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 30 January 1889.
in translation:
...let you know that last Monday I saw our friend Roulin again. There was good reason for it too — the...
...Gauguin to which I replied without delay. When Roulin came I had just finished the repetition of my s...
Roulin sends you his warm regards.
... was our interpretation of the event, not just Roulin’s and mine but that of many others. We were v...
...e for portraits if they dared ask for them. As Roulin, poor poverty-stricken devil and lowly employee...
...ke our hands. I could just show him the two examples of the portrait of his wife, which pleased him.
...ses, come on. Today I started work on a third Berceuse. I do know that it’s neither drawn nor paint...
in note 9:
The third version of the Berceuse is Augustine Roulin (‘La berceuse’) (F 505 / JH 1669). See Hoer...
in note 7:
For the portraits of the Roulin family, see letter 723, n. 2.
in note 6:
The Roulins, the Ginouxs of the Café de la Gare and the charwoman, Thérèse Balmoissière, were all...
in note 1:
...ident Carnot. Boulanger refused, however, to stage a coup. Roulin was a Boulangist (cf. letter 667).
745 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 3 February 1889.
in translation:
...let her choose between the three, her and her husband, only on condition that I’d do a repetition ...
When I came out of the hospital with good Roulin I fancied that I hadn’t had anything, only afterwa...
I must say this, that the neighbours &c. are particularly kind towards me, everyone here suffering ei...
...�ve done the Berceuse three times, now since Mrs Roulin was the model and I was only the painter, I l...
Perhaps in the Berceuse there’s an attempt at a little music of colour from here, it’s badly pain...
in note 6:
...ke measures to this end; see letter 728, n. 1. Roulin wrote about it to Theo on 28 December, and Mrs ...
in note 3:
The Roulins chose Augustine Roulin (‘La berceuse’) (F 505 / JH 1669); the repetition of it (the f...
747 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 18 February 1889.
in translation:
...ve found so much friendship already from the neighbours, from Mr Rey, from everyone at the hospital f...
748 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 25 February 1889.
in translation:
...l. Yesterday and today I began to work. When Mrs Roulin also left, to go and live with her mother in ...
in note 2:
...ns are F 505 / JH 1669 and F 506 / JH 1670. The Roulins had chosen F 505 / JH 1669; the repetition o...
751 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 22 March 1889.
in translation:
...ticles &c. do to you and me? As my good friend Roulin says, ‘it is acting as a pedestal for others�...
754 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Thursday, 4 April 1889.
in translation:
By the way — just today friend Roulin came to see me — he told me to give you his warm regards an...
And besides, before seeing Roulin I had already been to the gasworks to arrange it so. And Roulin was...
...here’s a fine article on Monet in Le Figaro, Roulin had read it and had been struck by it, he said....
Roulin was saying, or rather made it understood, that he didn’t at all like the anxiety that has re...
While Roulin isn’t exactly old enough to be like a father to me, all the same he has silent solemni...
Roulin’s family was still out in the country, and although he’s earning a little more, since the ...
in note 10:
Roulin celebrated his 48th birthday on 4 April.
in note 8:
Madame Roulin and her children were staying with her mother in Lambesc (see letter 775).
in note 3:
Roulin had been transferred to Marseille at the end of January; see letter 736, n. 14. ‘Carry burde...
765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
in note 24:
...of a sower’. After ‘ditto’ Van Gogh crossed out ‘portrait de Roulin’ (portrait of Roulin).
767 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 2 May 1889.
in note 1:
It may be deduced from letter 796, written by Roulin, that Theo had received the portraits of all the...
...ceived the portraits of all the members of the family, so Armand Roulin (F 493 / JH 1643) and Camille...
768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
in note 26:
...n Van Gogh refers to are the portraits of Augustine Roulin and Marie Ginoux. The consignment most lik...
773 Joseph Roulin to Vincent van Gogh. Marseille, Monday, 13 May 1889.
in translation:
Roulin, Railway Postman
...ealth is very good. I received a letter from my wife telling me that she is very well, as are Marcell...
in note 2:
Madame Roulin and the children were staying with her mother in Lambesc.
in note 6:
Roulin lived with Joseph Delpal and his wife Julienne Bloyet (Archives Municipales de Marseille). Van...
in note 5:
Regarding Roulin’s position in Marseille, see letter 736, n. 14.
in note 4:
...ntoine Pelissier, who lived in avenue de Montmajour and was, like Roulin, a native of Lambesc (ACA).
in note 1:
Van Gogh and Roulin had last seen each other around Thursday, 4 April (see letter 754). Apparently he...
774 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 21 May 1889.
in translation:
...r and undamaged. The Berceuse, the portrait of Roulin, the little sower, with the tree, the baby, the...
...ything arrived in good order and undamaged. The Berceuse, the portrait of Roulin, the little sower, w...
in note 2:
...en the fifth painting, F 505 / JH 1669, to Madame Roulin). At Vincent’s request, Theo gave two of ...
in note 3:
...nce information on the other four portraits of Roulin (F 432 / JH 1522, F 434 / JH 1647, F 435 / JH 1...
775 Joseph Roulin to Vincent van Gogh. Marseille, Wednesday, 22 May 1889.
in translation:
Roulin.
...ll you that I found them all in good health. My wife is very well, Armand, our blacksmith, I have rea...
We talked at length about you with my wife on the subject of my last journey to Arles. When I write t...
in note 1:
Madame Roulin and the children were staying with her mother (see letter 748).
in note 5:
The Roulins owned Augustine Roulin (‘La berceuse’) (F 505 / JH 1669). It cannot be ascertained wh...
in note 4:
Roulin had visited Van Gogh around Thursday, 4 April; see letter 754.
776 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 23 May 1889.
in note 4:
...use were with Jo van Gogh-Bonger (F 504 / JH 1655 and F 507 / JH 1672) and Roulin (F 505 / JH 1669).
782 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.
in translation:
...e from time to time like that one, or like the woman who posed for the Berceuse, I’d do something ...
in note 4:
This model was Augustine Roulin.
787 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 6 July 1889.
in translation:
...e to them smiling and very healthy, while the parents were at bay. So take it as it is, wait with co...
796 Joseph Roulin to Vincent van Gogh. Marseille, Monday, 19 August 1889.
in translation:
Roulin
...ot come until the first ten days of October. Augustine and Marcelle came to stay for a fortnight in ...
...ccept my sincere regards as well as those of my wife and my children. Marcelle sends you a big kiss.
in note 2:
...mas (29 September), see letter 654, n. 2. Augustine Roulin and the children were staying with her mot...
in note 3:
...nformation, it can be ascertained that the Roulin family owned the following portraits: Augustine Ro...
in note 1:
Vincent must have written to Roulin about Theo’s reaction to the portraits in the third consignment...
797 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 22 August 1889.
in translation:
(Our friend Roulin has written to me too.)
in note 14:
Roulin’s letter is letter 796.
814 Joseph Roulin to Vincent van Gogh. Marseille, Thursday, 24 October 1889.
in translation:
Roulin, Railway Postman
My wife was very happy to discover your kind letter on arrival, to learn from it that you are in go...
in note 3:
Van Gogh likely wrote to Roulin about his plan to put himself in the care of Dr Gachet in Auvers. See...
in note 1:
Since Roulin’s departure for Marseille on 21 January 1889, his wife Augustine and their children ha...
...e for Marseille on 21 January 1889, his wife Augustine and their children had been staying with her ...
836 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 4 January 1890.
in translation:
...le, i.e. I made a present of them to my friend Roulin, a white farmhouse among the olive trees and a ...
866 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 2 May 1890.
in translation:
If I were still to have at my disposal the model who posed for the Berceuse and the other whose portr...
in note 5:
Augustine Roulin was the model for the five versions of Augustine Roulin (‘La berceuse’): F 504 /...
871 To Joseph Ginoux. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 12 May 1890.
in translation:
...or a long time. If by chance you should see the Roulins, don’t forget to give them my warm regards...

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4 essay items found

Publication history / De brieven 1990: a large edition for a small readership
in publications_6:
...nwhile made public in other works, such as the Roulin letters published by Hulsker and the Gauguin le...
Correspondents / Preservation of the letters
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...him and gave or sent them to Theo (such as Joseph Roulin, who cleared up the Yellow House after the ...
Biographical & historical context / The financial backgrounds
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...rancs a month that his friend the postman, Joseph Roulin, had to feed the five mouths of his family,...
Publication history / The first collected edition of 1952-1954 and thereafter
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...ers plus a letter about Vincent written by Joseph Roulin to Willemien on 8 January 1889 (numbered W1...
...an Gogh’s life, among them four letters from Roulin to Van Gogh (and five from Roulin to Theo),The ...
The four letters from Roulin to Vincent van Gogh are 773, 775, 796 and 814.

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2 other items found

Documentation
in documentation:
The five letters by Joseph Roulin, the nine by the Reverend Frédéric Salles an...
...eph Roulin to Willemien van Gogh. Arles, 8 January 1889 (FR b710).Joseph Roulin
...ountryside or with very simple people, like the Roulins, because he leaves his ...
...k you for the kind things that you say about my wife and our little daughter. Re...
Overview of all the letters
in overview:
from Joseph Roulin, postal worker in Arles and Marseille

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48 letters, 4 essay items and 2 other items found

48 letters found

4 essay items found

2 other items found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters