Van Gogh painted a total of 7 portraits of Madame Ginoux the owner of the Café de la Gare in Arles, France. Van Gogh came to know Madame Ginoux, or Marie Jullian the wife of Joseph-Michel Ginoux, while he took lodging at the café from May to September 1888 before moving into the Yellow House…. He created the second version based on the composition of his first portrait but with a more finished quality. He used a more saturated and thickly applied color and has her seated in front of books rather than the gloves and umbrella. This second version, L’Arlesienne: Madame Ginoux with Books, is now located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (http://blog.vangoghgallery.com/index.php/2013/09/17/the-madame-ginoux-portraits-by-vincent-van-gogh/) In Arles Van Gogh painted 2 very similar portraits of Marie Ginoux... The first he described in a letter Nov. 1888 as "an Arlésienne... knocked off in one hour," (http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/43652)