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Portrait of Patience Escalier, Shepherd in Provence - Vincent van Gogh
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Description
A striking 1888 portrait by Vincent van Gogh, capturing a Provençal shepherd through bold colour contrasts and expressive, textured brushwork.
Painted in Arles in August 1888, this portrait depicts Patience Escalier, a local shepherd whom Van Gogh encountered during his time in the south of France. The work is a study in colour theory, utilising the contrast between the primary yellow of the hat and the deep blue of the background. Van Gogh applied paint with his characteristic impasto technique, creating a textured surface that directs the viewer's eye across the canvas.
The subject is rendered with a direct, unflinching gaze. His weathered features are articulated through short, rhythmic brushstrokes in shades of orange, red, and ochre. These warm tones stand against the cool, linear strokes of the blue background, which suggest a sense of movement. The shepherd wears a light green coat and a dark, patterned neckerchief, providing a bridge between the warm facial tones and the cool surroundings.
Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo about his desire to paint portraits that would appear as apparitions to people a century later. He sought to capture the essence of his subjects through colour rather than photographic accuracy. This portrait is one of several studies of local figures from the Arles period, reflecting his interest in the rural inhabitants of Provence. The composition is tightly cropped, focusing entirely on the head and shoulders of the sitter to create an immediate, personal connection. The signature in the upper left corner is a deliberate inclusion, marking the work as a finished piece within his broader series of portraits from this productive summer.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
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Portrait of Patience Escalier, Shepherd in Provence - Vincent van Gogh
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From $39.00 USD
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From $39.00 USD
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Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh did not start painting until he was twenty-seven. Before that he tried being an art dealer (fired), a schoolteacher (quit), a bookshop assistant (quit), and a preacher in a Belgian mining town (dismissed for excessive zeal, which in this context meant giving away his clothes and sleeping on the floor). He had a pattern of total commitment followed by total collapse.
He taught himself to draw by copying prints and working through textbooks. His brother Theo, an art dealer in Paris, sent money every month for the rest of Vincent's life. Without Theo there are no paintings. The letters between them, over 600, are one of the most complete records of any artist's thinking. Van Gogh wrote about colour theory, composition, what he ate, what he read, how much he spent on paint. He was articulate and well-read and not, despite the popular version, simply mad.
He moved to Paris in 1886 and encountered Impressionism. The palette changed immediately: from the dark browns of his Dutch period to the colours people actually associate with his work. He met Gauguin, Pissarro, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec. He absorbed Pointillism and Japanese prints. Then he moved to Arles in the south of France, where the light was better and people were fewer.
The Arles period produced Sunflowers, The Bedroom, Starry Night Over the Rhone. The breakdown followed: the argument with Gauguin, the severed ear (he cut part of his left ear, not the whole thing), the asylum at Saint-Remy, and then Auvers-sur-Oise, where he painted seventy canvases in seventy days before dying from a gunshot wound at thirty-seven. He sold one painting during his lifetime, or possibly two. Theo died six months later.
He taught himself to draw by copying prints and working through textbooks. His brother Theo, an art dealer in Paris, sent money every month for the rest of Vincent's life. Without Theo there are no paintings. The letters between them, over 600, are one of the most complete records of any artist's thinking. Van Gogh wrote about colour theory, composition, what he ate, what he read, how much he spent on paint. He was articulate and well-read and not, despite the popular version, simply mad.
He moved to Paris in 1886 and encountered Impressionism. The palette changed immediately: from the dark browns of his Dutch period to the colours people actually associate with his work. He met Gauguin, Pissarro, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec. He absorbed Pointillism and Japanese prints. Then he moved to Arles in the south of France, where the light was better and people were fewer.
The Arles period produced Sunflowers, The Bedroom, Starry Night Over the Rhone. The breakdown followed: the argument with Gauguin, the severed ear (he cut part of his left ear, not the whole thing), the asylum at Saint-Remy, and then Auvers-sur-Oise, where he painted seventy canvases in seventy days before dying from a gunshot wound at thirty-seven. He sold one painting during his lifetime, or possibly two. Theo died six months later.
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