Madame Roulin and Her Baby
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Details
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- 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)
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Subject Matter
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum catalog classifies the work as a painting.
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the medium as oil on canvas.
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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
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The work is dated 1888, placing it within nineteenth-century art.
Geographic Regions
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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.
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 2,987 × 3,721 · Metropolitan Museum Of Art · Available