A family name across two periods

The record dates Portrait of Madame Augustine Roulin to 1888, the Arles year. Eight titles in this catalogue carry the Roulin name: five dated 1888 and three dated 1889. The name crosses the boundary between the third and fourth periods of this site's chronology, which is a fact about dates in a record and not a claim about where any of the eight were painted.

What the record gives

The canvas measures 65 by 55 centimetres and is held by the Oskar Reinhart Foundation in Winterthur, one of four entries here in that collection, dated 1886, 1888 and 1889. The measured palette reads as ochre and yellow.

Portraits, by year

Forty-eight titles in this catalogue contain the word portrait, and 1888 holds the largest share at fifteen, with fourteen in 1887 and nine in 1889. The three periods in the middle of the decade carry almost all of them; 1890 holds two. Ochre, the first family in this measurement, dominates nineteen works dated 1888. This catalogue holds a second entry naming the same sitter, dated 1889 and held elsewhere; the two are kept as separate records, which is the only responsible way to hold repeated subjects.