# L'Arlésienne \(Madame Ginoux\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOGH, Vincent van]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 65 x 49 cm ## Commentary <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note02.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue numbers:</a> F 541, JH 1893. Working from the large-format portrait drawing that Gauguin left in Arles at the end of December 1888, van Gogh returned to the subject of the Arlésienne in January 1890, simultaneously drawing on his reinterpretation of Madame Ginoux with Books of 1888 \(F 488\). As yet untitled in the painting of that year, the books accompanying Madame Ginoux in subsequent variant all bear the same two titles: Harriet Beecher-Stove's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Four of the five original variants of the portrait survived, they are in the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, in the Museu de Arte, São Paulo, and in a private collection. ## Related artworks - [A Cottage on the Heath and "The Protestant Barn"]() - [A Lane in the Public Garden at Arles]() - [A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul]() - [A Pair of Leather Clogs]() - [A Pair of Shoes]() - [A Pair of Shoes]() - [A Workman's Meal-Break]() - [Agostina Segatori in the Café du Tambourin]() - [Almond Tree in Blossom]() - [Apricot Trees in Blossom]() - [At Eternity's Gate \("Worn Out"\)]() - [Avenue of Plane Trees near Arles Station]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()