Madame Roulin and Her Baby

Madame Roulin and Her Baby

Vincent van Gogh

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Details

Date
1888
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
25 × 20 in. (63.5 × 50.8 cm) Framed: 37 3/8 × 32 in. (94.9 × 81.3 cm)
Holding institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Art Genome Taxonomy

9 tags

Subject Matter

  • Portrait Both · 99%

    The catalog lists Portraits as a subject, and the image centers on the baby's face in a tightly composed portrait format.

  • Family Both · 98%

    The catalog lists Mothers and identifies the work as Madame Roulin and Her Baby; visually, an adult's hands and clothing hold the child.

  • Human Figure Visual · 99%

    The image clearly depicts a human baby, with the face, hands, and clothed body occupying the center of the composition.

Visual Qualities

  • Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 98%

    Intense yellow and green passages dominate the background and surrounding clothing, producing a strongly vivid palette.

Medium and Techniques

  • Painting Metadata · 99%

    The museum catalog classifies the work as a painting.

  • Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

    The catalog identifies the medium as oil on canvas.

  • Impasto Visual · 90%

    Raised-looking, directional strokes and dense accumulations of paint are visible across the garment, hands, face, background, and green clothing.

Time Periods

  • 19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

    The work is dated 1888, placing it within nineteenth-century art.

Geographic Regions

  • Dutch Art Metadata · 96%

    The catalog identifies Vincent van Gogh as Dutch.

Source & rights

Vincent van Gogh. Madame Roulin and Her Baby. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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