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Madame Roulin and
Her Baby Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 50.8 cm, by Vincent van Gogh, 1888 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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Baby Marcelle, with her fat
cheeks, dominates this composition, her glowing face and insistent
gaze animating Van Gogh's thick, swirling brushwork so that she
seems caught mid breath, painted in motion. She is enveloped in her
mother's arms, yet the mother recedes into a supporting silhouette
as the child radiates with immediacy, creating a sharp contrast
within the scene. |
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