# Joseph Roulin and family sit for an Arles portrait-file in 1888

Date: 1888

## The fact

In 1888 Joseph Roulin and family sat for an Arles portrait-file. The instrument is that neighbour-file, not each bust as a separate day. Vincent van Gogh's documented role is: He painted the postman and family. Roulin sat and later supported him after the ear. Sitters are not employees of a factory he owned.

## Context

Roulin is the named postman. Sharing those sittings is required. Gauguin is not this household. The setting of Joseph Roulin and family sit for an Arles portrait-file in 1888 is the public file around 1888-07-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. One family file, not a Fact per canvas. Do not store later museum labels as 1888. Mixed effects of Joseph Roulin and family sit for an Arles portrait-file in 1888 are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Musée d'Orsay — Roulin portraits neighbourhood at https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks?s=van%20gogh (Musée d'Orsay). Independent locator: MoMA — Vincent van Gogh artist page (Roulin neighbourhood) at https://www.moma.org/artists/2206 (Museum of Modern Art). Official carrier: Musée d'Orsay — Roulin portraits neighbourhood (https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks?s=van%20gogh; Musée d'Orsay). Independent carrier: MoMA — Vincent van Gogh artist page (Roulin neighbourhood) (https://www.moma.org/artists/2206; Museum of Modern Art).

Official or archival record: Musée d'Orsay — Roulin portraits neighbourhood (https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks?s=van%20gogh; Musée d'Orsay).

## Significance

Improving path from Joseph Roulin and family sit for an Arles portrait-file in 1888 on 1888-07-01. A named neighbour-portrait file is a cohesion path. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Joseph Roulin and family sit for an Arles portrait-file in 1888 under 1888-07-01 for Vincent van Gogh. Established: a sourced public record of Joseph Roulin and family sit for an Arles portrait-file in 1888 under 1888-07-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Joseph Roulin and family sit for an Arles portrait-file in 1888. Naming Vincent van Gogh does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1888-07-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Vincent van Gogh: https://factrail.ai/people/vincent-van-gogh

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.moma.org/artists/2206
- https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks?s=van%20gogh

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-roulin