Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Two portraits in the final year
The record dates Portrait of Adeline Ravoux to 1890. Forty-eight titles in this catalogue contain the word portrait, and only two of them carry the last year's date, against fifteen in 1888 and nine in 1889. The named-sitter portrait, which occupies the middle of the decade, is nearly absent from the end of it in this record.
What the record gives
The canvas measures 67 by 55 centimetres, an upright, and it is recorded in a private collection — one of 118 entries here whose location field ends there. The measured palette reads as blue.
Blue at the end
Blue dominates ten of the eighty-four works dated 1890, down from twenty-six of 135 in 1888, its peak. Across the whole catalogue blue is a dominant family in fifty-nine of 610 works, which makes it far scarcer than yellow at 356 or green at 222. A blue reading in the last year is therefore an uncommon return twice over. This is the only title in the catalogue carrying the Ravoux name, and the record gives nothing about the sitter beyond it.
Sources
4 references- Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he c
- Portrait of Adeline Ravoux — Wikidata
description: painting by Vincent van Gogh (F768); inception: 1890-01-01; dimensions: 67 × 55 cm
- Portrait of Adeline Ravoux — Wikipedia
Portrait of Adeline Ravoux is an oil painting from June 1890 by Vincent van Gogh. It is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. == Description == The twelve-year-old Adeline Ravoux was the daughter of Arthur-Gustave Ravoux, whose
- Adeline Ravoux, by Vincent van Gogh, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.31 — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
