The Ravoux Inn is located in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village north of Paris. This now famous inn was the last home to Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh was in Auvers for only seventy days, yet these were some of his most productive times. The inhabitants, such as Adeline Ravoux, as well as the beautiful location and…
Adeline Ravoux was 13 years old when Vincent van Gogh rented a room in her father’s inn in Auvers-sur-Oise. Van Gogh made three portraits of the young girl though she only sat for him one time. One of these portraits he gave to Ravoux and another he sent to his brother, Theo. He wrote about…
On April 18, 1889, Theo van Gogh married Johanna Gezina Bonger in the Amsterdam town hall and just a few short months later on July 5, 1889, Jo Van Gogh wrote to Vincent saying, “I am now going to tell you a great piece of news, on which we have concentrated a good deal of…
