What is the name of Van Gogh's portrait of his mother?

What is the name of Van Gogh’s portrait of his mother? It is Portrait of the Artist’s Mother. Vincent van Gogh painted the work in October 1888, while living in Arles, using a black-and-white photograph of Anna Carbentus van Gogh as his starting point.

Van Gogh disliked the photograph’s lack of color and wrote that he wanted to create a painted version in a harmony of colors as he remembered her. The finished portrait presents Anna as dignified and proud against a green background. Its controlled pose and restrained expression differ from the energetic landscapes and vivid floral paintings most often associated with his later career.

Anna was not simply the subject’s mother: she was an amateur artist and a keen watercolorist who encouraged her children’s interest in drawing and nature. Van Gogh’s family relationships were often strained, but he still made portraits and flower paintings for relatives. The work is sometimes shortened informally to The Artist’s Mother, but Portrait of the Artist’s Mother is the accepted title. The painting is held by the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and is catalogued as F477.