Van Gogh and the Roulins at the Van Gogh Museum

From 3 October 2025 to 11 January 2026, the Van Gogh Museum presents the exhibition “Van Gogh and the Roulins. Together Again at Last”

Source: Van Gogh Museum · Image: Vincent van Gogh, Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Gift of Robert Treat Paine).

In under two years, Vincent van Gogh made 26 portraits of members of a single family. A special relationship developed between Van Gogh and the postman Joseph Roulin, his wife Augustine and their three children in Arles, in the South of France, which would lead to one of the most impressive portrait series in art history. 

A large number of portraits from this unique series, which are now in museums and private collections around the world, are being reunited for the first time this autumn in the exhibition Van Gogh and the Roulins. Together Again at Last.  

This exhibition was realised in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which is home to two key works from the series: Joseph Roulin and La Berceuse. Other loans from the series are from museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kröller-Müller Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningenand Museum Folkwang in Essen.

Featuring more than twenty loans from prominent international collections, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see this series of iconic portraits together.