In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
During his stay in Arles, a town in the South of France, Van Gogh often painted the local farm workers, whose simple lifestyle he admired and idealized. Van Gogh captures the humble coat of this man in loose, muddy strokes; ruddy cheeks suggest his work outdoors. A few horizontal dashes indicate puffs of smoke, and thick, unblended marks describe an ear. Despite these moments of near abstraction, Van Gogh maintains an astounding attention to naturalistic detail, working to portray to the way a person really looks and behaves. Note how the man's mouth is slightly clenched to hold the pipe.
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Imitator of Vincent van Gogh — Portrait of Vincent van Gogh
Alexej von Jawlensky — Bauer
Edvard Munch — Julius Meier-Graefe
Paul Cézanne — Man in a Blue Smock
Paul Cézanne — Le Fumeur de pipe (The Smoker)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901) — Monsieur Boi
Paul Cézanne — Le Jardinier Vallier (The artist's gardener, 
Paul Cézanne — L'homme à la pipe
Paul Cézanne — Cézanne with bowler hat, sketch
Paul Cézanne — Le Fumeur accoudé
Paul Cézanne — The Drinker (Le Buveur)
Paul Cézanne — Gustave Boyer (b. 1840) in a Straw Hat
