From 3 October 2025 to 11 January 2026, the Van Gogh Museum presents the exhibition “Van Gogh and the Roulins. Together Again at Last”
Supply: Van Gogh Museum · Picture: Vincent van Gogh, Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888, Museum of Wonderful Arts, Boston (Reward of Robert Deal with Paine).
In below two years, Vincent van Gogh made 26 portraits of members of a single household. A particular relationship developed between Van Gogh and the postman Joseph Roulin, his spouse Augustine and their three youngsters in Arles, within the South of France, which might result in one of the spectacular portrait sequence in artwork historical past.
A lot of portraits from this distinctive sequence, which at the moment are in museums and personal collections all over the world, are being reunited for the primary time this autumn within the exhibition Van Gogh and the Roulins. Collectively Once more at Final.
This exhibition was realised in collaboration with the Museum of Wonderful Arts in Boston, which is dwelling to 2 key works from the sequence: Joseph Roulin and La Berceuse. Different loans from the sequence are from museums together with the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in New York, the Kröller-Müller Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningenand Museum Folkwang in Essen.
That includes greater than twenty loans from distinguished worldwide collections, the exhibition gives a uncommon alternative to see this sequence of iconic portraits collectively.
