Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1887)
Portrait of Vincent van Gogh is an 1887 chalk pastel on cardboard by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Toulouse-Lautrec had encountered Vincent van Gogh, ten years his senior, when they were both taking lessons at the open studio of Fernand Cormon in Paris from 1886 to 1887.
The brightly coloured Impressionist work, mainly of blues, oranges, and yellows, measures. It portrays Van Gogh during the time he was living with his brother, Theo, in the Montmartre district of Paris. He is depicted in profile from the right, learning forward at a table in a bar, with a glass of absinthe, as if in conversation. It is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, catalogued "d693V/1962".
Other portraits of Van Gogh by his contemporaries include the 1886 portrait by John Russell, a drawing of Vincent with his brother Theo by Lucien Pissarro in 1887, and The Painter of Sunflowers by Paul Gauguin.
