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Adeline Ravoux was 13 years old when Vincent van Gogh<\/a> rented a room in her father\u2019s inn in Auvers-sur-Oise<\/a>.\u00a0 Van Gogh made three portraits of the young girl though she only sat for him one time.\u00a0 One of these portraits he gave to Ravoux and another he sent to his brother, Theo.\u00a0 He wrote about the portrait in a letter to Theo,<\/p>\n

\u201cThis week I have done a portrait of a girl of about 16, in blue against a blue background, the daughter of the people I am lodging with. I have given her this portrait, but I made a variant of it for you, a size 15 canvas.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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In 1956, at the age of 76, Adeline Ravoux wrote a memoir of Vincent\u2019s stay at her father\u2019s inn.\u00a0 In it she discusses Van Gogh\u2019s arrival, his dress and build, even his dining habits and his fondness for her younger sister, Germaine.\u00a0 She explains how she came to sit for Van Gogh\u2019s portrait and how she and her parents were not impressed with the finished product.<\/p>\n

\u201cVincent had not spoken to me before he did my portrait, other than for some polite words. One day, he asked me: \u201cWould it please you if I did your portrait?\u201d He appeared to really want to. I accepted and he asked my parents’ permission. I was then thirteen years, but to some I appeared sixteen. He did my portrait in an afternoon, in one sitting. During the sitting Vincent did not say a word to me; he smoked his pipe non-stop.<\/p>\n

He found me very well behaved and complimented me for not having moved. I was not tired, but it amused me to see him paint and I was very proud to pose for my portrait. Dressed in blue, I was sitting on a chair. A blue ribbon held my hair. I have blue eyes. He used blue for the background of the portrait: it was therefore a Symphony in Blue<\/i>. M. Vincent also made a copy in a square format that he sent to his brother, as he indicates in one of his letters. I did not see him do this copy. There is also a third portrait of me. I don’t know this last.<\/p>\n

What I wish to emphasize is that I only posed for one portrait. I confess that I was only poorly satisfied with my portrait, that I was even disappointed: I did not see a resemblance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ravoux explains in the memoir that some 15 years after Van Gogh\u2019s death<\/a> her father sold the portrait as well as another Van Gogh painting, The Town Hall of Auvers on 14 July<\/a><\/i>, for 40 francs to 2 American artists. \u00a0In 1988 at a Christie\u2019s auction, one of the portraits of Adeline Ravoux sold for $13.8 million.<\/p>\n

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