We recently received the following message from a Van Gogh Gallery visitor: Hello, I’m wondering if it is known who the woman is (a name..?) in the painting, A Woman Walking in a Garden. Vincent van Gogh painted A Woman Walking in a Garden in 1887. The painting is aptly named as it depicts a woman…
On May 8, 1889, Vincent van Gogh took a train to St. Remy and became a self-admitted patient at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in the south of France. Van Gogh’s brother, Theo, arranged for him to have two small adjoining rooms, or cells, each with bars on the windows, just as all the rooms in the…
While at the asylum in Saint-Remy, Vincent van Gogh painted a few portraits. One of the portraits is of Francois Trabuc, the chief orderly, or overseer, at Saint-Paul. On September 5th or 6th of 1889 Van Gogh wrote to his brother about the portrait and Trabuc, who Van Gogh found to have an interesting look,…
