La Berceuse, portrait of Madame Roulin

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My photographic version of the van Gogh painting "La Berceuse, portrait of Madame Roulin, december 1888" (Made after different versions as seen in the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

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How did I create this photo?

This time, it was not all too hard to find clothing somewhat similar to what Madame Roulin was wearing.

A bigger challenge was the chair, I just could not find a chair very close to the original and I did not want to fake it in Photoshop. So, after a very long search on the web I found a second hand chair I liked.

But the biggest challenge was photographing everything correctly.

Why? Well, because Vincent painted Madame Roulin very much out of proportion. This was intented as he wrote to his brother Theo.

But, with a specific lens and some photoshop I got it to a certain point it was photographically out of proportions enough for me.

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The whole proces of researching, planning, finding the clothing, the chair and model, testing light set-ups and camera settings, shooting and post-processing in Photoshop, took me about four months.

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Thanks to Polina Mavrikaki, one of the painters of the movie Loving Vincent for painting the background.