1888 · F665 · JH1879
The Schoolboy (Camille Roulin)
The Schoolboy (Camille Roulin), 1888. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from The Roulin Family.
The Schoolboy (Camille Roulin) meaning and analysis
The Schoolboy (Camille Roulin) belongs to the site node The Roulin Family. That node places the work inside Van Gogh's letters, places and changing painterly abilities rather than isolating it as a single image.
Its strongest period signal is Van Gogh Arles Period.
Technically, the page connects this work to Van Gogh Oil on Canvas , Van Gogh Brushstroke Analysis . The related map below shows these connections.
Camille Roulin, the postman’s eleven-year-old second son, in a dark cap edged with yellow and a blue smock, one arm resting on the back of a chair, his eyes turned away from us; the wall behind is orange-red above and ochre below. In early December 1888 Van Gogh wrote that he had painted the whole postman’s family — “the man, his wife, the baby, the young boy and the 16-year-old son”; the editors of the letters list this canvas among the possible portraits.