Charles Laval

To gain some subsidies, Laval performs academic portraits (all lost), using his experience received from Leon Bonnat.

A series of mishaps caused Laval and Gauguin to leave Central America for the island of Martinique.

There he made a small series of landscapes speckled with bright colors, that have been erroneously attributed to Gauguin in the past.

Van Gogh asked Laval, Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard to send him a portrait, in exchange for one of his own self-portraits.

He included a small drawing of the Laval portrait in a letter to Theo, in order to give his brother an idea of the painting.

Charles Laval, Self Portrait , 1888, oil on canvas, 50 × 60 cm Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Paul Gauguin , Still Life with Profile of Laval , 1886, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Landscape of Martinique , (1887)