Vincent van Gogh - Postman

In a letter to his brother Theo from 1888, in which he refers to the postman Joseph-Étienne Roulin, who had become his friend, van Gogh wrote: "Now I work with another model, a postman in a blue uniform With gold decorations, a large, bearded face, very socially. He painted more portraits by the postman Roulin than from any other person, apart from himself.