‘Van Gogh and the Roulins. Together Again at Last’ will explore Van Gogh’s remarkable friendship with Joseph Roulin, a postman in the southern French town of Arles, where the artist lived from 1888-1889. This incredible show will be on view from 3 October to until 11 January 2026.

Along with his wife Augustine and three children, Roulin became a close friend and frequent sitter for Van Gogh, who made 26 portraits of the family during two turbulent years in Arles.

The exhibition will be the first to focus exclusively on this important group of paintings, reuniting many of the portraits for the first time. Conceived in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to see this series of iconic portraits together. The exhibition will place the Roulin portraits in a broader art historical context, alongside works by Frans Hals, Rembrandt and Adriaen van Ostade, and paintings by Paul Gauguin, who also portrayed several members of the Roulin family. The exhibition will further display archival photographs of the Roulin family, taken between 1902 and 1955, as well as correspondence between Joseph Roulin and Theo van Gogh during Vincent’s hospitalisation, exhibited for the first time.

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Image: Vincent van Gogh, Postman Joseph Roulin , 1888, oil on canvas, 81.3 × 65.4 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Robert Treat Paine. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston