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Adeline Ravoux
Vincent van Gogh1890
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
In May 1890, Van Gogh left the south and settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, 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.”
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- Title: Adeline Ravoux
- Creator: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
- Date Created: 1890
- Physical Dimensions: 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.)
- Provenance: Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger [1862-1925], the wife of Theo van Gogh, Amsterdam, Netherlands., (Artz and de Bois, The Hague, Netherlands), Katherine S. Dreier [1877-1952], New York, NY, Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan [1877-1939], New York, NY, (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY, December 6-7, 1939, sold to Leonard C. Hanna Jr.), Leonard C. Hanna Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.31
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Fun Fact: Adeline Ravoux, at age 13, was not pleased with her portrait and did not think the image resembled her. Today, a photograph exists of Adeline in her late seventies and the resemblance is truly remarkable.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Netherlands
- Credit Line: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1958.31
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