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| Keywords: Vincent van Gogh - Adeline Ravoux.jpg Artwork Creator Vincent van Gogh Adeline Ravoux Alternate title en In May 1890 Van Gogh left southern France to live in Auvers a small town just north of Paris where he rented a room at the inn of Arthur Ravoux A month after his arrival he painted three portraits of Ravoux's sixteen-year-old daughter Adeline Although known for his landscapes Van Gogh's greatest ambition was to paint portraits I should like to paint portraits he wrote to his sister which a hundred years from now will seem to people of those days like apparitions Thus I do not attempt to achieve this through photographic resemblance but through our impassioned aspects using our science and our modern taste for color as a means of expression and of exaltation of color This painting presents Adeline Ravoux not as an individual but as a symbol of the eternal woman set against the infinite blue night like a radiant star <ref>http //www clevelandart org/art/1958 31 The Cleveland Museum of Art</ref> reflist Auvers-sur-Oise 1890 06 oil canvas cm 50 2 50 5 Cleveland Museum of Art Gallery 222b http //www clevelandart org/art/1958 31 The Cleveland Museum of Art<br/>http //www vangoghgallery com/catalog/Painting/2141/Portrait-of-Adeline-Ravoux html vangoghgallery com object history credit line Bequest of Leonard C Hanna Jr Van Gogh catalogues 786 2036 accession number 1958 31 35432~99984 PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT Van Gogh 1890-06 Auvers-sur-Oise Portrait of Adeline Ravoux Portrait of Adeline Ravoux Cleveland Museum of Art | ||||
