Art conservators were examining Van Gogh's 1885 piece "Head of a Peasant Woman," and when an X-ray machine was used on it, the portrait was revealed on the back of the painting.

Art History Van Gogh’s Radiant Portraits of a Postman’s Family Get a Rare Reunion The works are now the subject of a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

As usual with Van Gogh, we are dealing here with a creative gush. All the Roulin portraits were made in an eight-month period, stretching from the summer of 1888 until February the following year.

A hidden self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh has been discovered behind one of his paintings, covered by layers of glue and cardboard for more than a century. The image was found when art ...

At the heart of this show are 14 of the 26 portraits Van Gogh made of Joseph Roulin and his family, along with works by artists the painter admired, photos, letters and more surprises. WBUR arts ...

“I’ve done the portraits of an entire family, the family of the postman,” van Gogh wrote to his brother in late 1888. “The man, his wife, the baby, the young boy and the 16-year-old son ...

The self-portrait shows van Gogh, who infamously cut off part of his left ear in 1888, in a brimmed hat with his ear still intact — a clue that this may have been created in his early days.

Van Gogh's Head of a Peasant Woman is one of three pieces of the artist's work in the National Galleries Collection. With the discovery of the hidden self-portrait, they now have four works in total.

A routine cataloging procedure of a painting by Vincent van Gogh at the National Galleries in Scotland yielded an unexpected discovery: a hidden self-portrait on the back of the canvas.

The artist’s illness lasted from mid-July 1889 until Sept. 1. A clue to the portrait’s provenance can be found in letters from van Gogh during this time.

After years of disputes, experts have confirmed that a portrait of Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh was indeed painted by the artist himself while he recovered from a mental breakdown in a French asylum.

The self-portrait was revealed during an X-ray of an 1885 painting by Van Gogh, Head of a Peasant Woman, as the museum was prepping for an upcoming exhibition on impressionism, which is scheduled ...