Joseph Roulin Sitting in a Cane Chair, Three-quarter Length, Arles 1888 - Vincent Van Gogh

Joseph Roulin was the local postman, and he and all his family were friendly with Van Gogh and sat for him. The family lived close to the Yellow House and Van Gogh decided that he would paint every member of the family. He wrote of making portraits '...of an entire family, that of the postman, of whom I have earlier done a head: husband, wife, baby, and the little boy and the sixteen year old son, all types and truly French, although they look like Russians.'