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Adeline Ravoux

Adeline Ravoux

1890
(Dutch, 1853–1890)
Framed: 72.5 x 73.5 x 8.5 cm (28 9/16 x 28 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 50.2 x 50.5 cm (19 3/4 x 19 7/8 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Adeline Ravoux, at age 13, was not pleased with her portrait and did not think the image resembled her. Today, a photograph exists of Adeline in her late seventies and the resemblance is truly remarkable.

Description

In May 1890, Van Gogh left the south and settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town north of Paris, where he rented a room at the inn of Arthur Ravoux. This portrait, completed during the last months of the artist’s life, depicts Ravoux’s 13-year-old daughter, Adeline. Van Gogh wrote that rather than photographic resemblance, he wanted his portraits to convey the “impassioned aspects” of contemporary life through the “modern taste for color.”
  • Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger [1862-1925], the wife of Theo van Gogh, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
    1912
    (Artz and de Bois, The Hague, Netherlands)
    1912-1929
    Katherine S. Dreier [1877-1952], New York, NY
    -1939
    Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan [1877-1939], New York, NY
    1939
    (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY, December 6-7, 1939, sold to Leonard C. Hanna Jr.)
    1939-1958
    Leonard C. Hanna Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1958-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Louis Anfray, “Les souvenirs d’Adeline Ravoux sur le séjour de Vincent van Gogh à Auvers-sur-Oise,” Les Cahiers de Van Gogh no. 1 (Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1956): p. 9. Mentioned: p. 9
    Société Anonyme. Report 1920-1921. [New York]: The Society, 1921. Reproduced: p. 6
    Dreier, Katherine S. Western Art and the New Era; An Introduction to Modern Art. New York: Brentano's, 1923. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 63-64, fig. 35
    de LaFaille, J. B. L'oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh, catalogue raisonné. Paris, FR et Bruxelles, BE: Les Éditions G. van Oest, 1928. Reproduced: no. 786, vol. 2
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    La Faille, J. Bernard de , Charles Terrasse, Prudence Montagu-Pollock, and André Gloeckner. Vincent Van Gogh. New York, N.Y.: French and European Publications [etc.], 1939 Reproduced: p. 776
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    The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LIX, no.9 (September, 1959): 199. Reproduced: p. 199
    "Bequest of Leonard C. Hannah, Jr." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLVI,no.6 (June, 1959): 122. Mentioned: p. 122
    Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. 1913 Armory Show; 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Utica, NY:1963. Reproduced: p. 191, no. 1047
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    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 178 archive.org
    Christie, Manson & Woods. Important Impressionist and Modern Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture. 1966. Mentioned & reproduced: lot no. 49
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 178
    De la Faille, J.-B. The Works of Vincent Van Gogh; His Paintings and Drawings. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff International, 1970. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 786
    Lecaldano, Paolo. L'opera pittorica completa di Van Gogh e i suoi nessi grafici. Milan, IT: Rizzoli, 1971. Reproduced: no. 841
    Lubin, Albert J. Stranger on the Earth; A Psychological Biography of Vincent Van Gogh. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1972. Reproduced: p. 232, pl. 19
    Henning, Edward B. "Pablo Picasso: Bouteille, Verre, et Fourchette." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LIX, no. 7 (September 1972): 194-203. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 199, fig. 12
    Henning, Edward. "Reconstruction: A Painting by Jasper Johns." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LX, no. 8 (October, 1973): 235-241. Reproduced: p. 237
    Johnson, Mark. "Portrait Painting: An Image of a Man." Arts and Activities 82, no. 1 (September 1977): 32-38. Reproduced: p. 37, fig. 5
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 221 archive.org
    Hulsker, Jan. The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1980. Reproduced: no. 2036; Detail: p. 485 no. 16
    Nemecaek, Alfred. "Der Wirt Ravoux und Seine Tochter-Menschen in Auvers." Art: Das Kunstmagazin 1 (February 1981): 28. Reproduced: p. 28
    Henning, Edward. "Woman in the Waves by Paul Gauguin." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXXI, no.10 (October, 1984): 280-289. Reproduced: p. 283
    Herbert, Robert L., Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney. The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, CT: Published for the Yale University Art Gallery by Yale University Press, 1984. Mentioned: p. 748, 776
    Van der Marck, Jan. In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship. Miami, Fla., U.S.A.: The Center, 1984. Mentioned: cat no. 124, p. 246, Reproduced: p. 73
    Ikegami, Chūji. Gohho. Tōkyō, Japan: Shūeisha, 1985. Reproduced: p. 72
    Gohho ten. Tokyo, Japan: Tōkyō Shinbun, 1985. Reproduced: p. 76
    Mothe, Alain. Vincent van Gogh à Auvers-sur-Oise. Paris, FR: Valhermeil, 1987. Reproduced: p. 89
    Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987. Reproduced: p. 107
    Brown, Milton W. The Story of the Armory Show. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1988. Reproduced: p. 199; mentioned: p. 272, no. 1047
    Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part I. 1988. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 56-62, lot no. 22
    Mukōda, Naoki, and Hideo Takumi. Gohho junrei. Tōkyō: Shinchōsha, 1990. Reproduced: p. 76
    Madeline, Laurence. "Auvers: La Symphonie Inachevee." In Van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise: Mai-Juillet 1890., 8-27. [Paris]: Publié par Beaux-Arts Magazine, Publications, Nuit et jour, 1990. Reproduced: p. 17
    Heijbroek, Jan Frederik, and Ester Wouthuysen. Kunst, kennis en commercie: de kunsthandelaar J.H. de Bois (1878-1946). Amsterdam, NL: Contact, 1993. Mentioned: p. 44, 200
    Walther, Ingo F. and Rainer Metzger. Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings. Köln, DE: Benedikt Taschen, 1993. Reproduced: p. 667, vol. 2
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    Gachet, Paul, and Alain Mothe. Les 70 jours de van Gogh à Auvers: essai d'éphéméride dans le décor de l'époque (20 mai-30 juillet 1890), d'après les lettres, documents, souvenirs et déductions, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1959. [Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône]: Editions du Valhermeil, 1994. Reproduced: p. 154-155, pl. 26
    Hulsker, Jan. The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches: Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent Van Gogh. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co, 1996. :Mentioned and reproduced: p. 466-467
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    Goldin, Marco. Gauguin, Van Gogh: l'avventura del colore nuovo. Conegliano, IT: Linea d'ombra libri, 2005. Reproduced: p. 26
    Gross, Jennifer R., and Ruth L. Bohan. The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with the Yale University Art Gallery, 2006. Reproduced: p. 174
    Veen, Wouter van der, and Peter Knapp. Van Gogh in Auvers: his last days. New York, NY: Monacelli Press, 2010. Reproduced: p. 163, fig. 83
    Franklin, David. Director's Choice: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. Reproduced: p. 62-63
    Berman, Avis. 2013. “Forces for the New Collectors and the Armory.” Magazine Antiques 180, no. 1 (January/February 2013: 154-166. Mentioned: p. 159; reproduced: p. 162, fig. 11
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    Stein, Susan Alyson. "Van Gogh in New York: Picturing the First Years, 1912-29." In Van Gogh in America. Jill Shaw, ed., 56-91. Detroit, Michgan: Detroit Institute of Arts, 2022. Reproduced: P. 61, pl. 18, no. 65; Mentioned: P. 63
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