After Monsieur Roulin

After Monsieur Roulin is a fine art portrait created by Australian artist Troy Schooneman inspired by Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890). In particular, this portrait pays homage to one of Van Gogh’s paintings entitled "Portrait of Joseph Roulin" (1889). Joseph Roulin worked as the Postmaster General at the local post office in Arles, France, where Van Gogh lived in the last years of his life. Van Gogh visited the post office frequently to send paintings to his brother Theo in the Netherlands and Van Gogh and Monsieur Roulin became close friends. In a letter to Theo, Vincent describes Roulin as “a man who is not bitter, not melancholy, not perfect, not hap...View all