The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 26, 2024
Dr. Gachet
1890
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Van Gogh’s brother Theo wrote of this print, “It’s a real painter’s etching. No refinement in the procedure, but a drawing done on metal.”Description
This portrait of Dr. Paul Gachet, made just two months before the artist’s death, is the only etching that Vincent van Gogh created. Van Gogh placed himself under the care of Gachet in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village on the northern outskirts of Paris, at the recommendation of fellow artist Camille Pissarro. The doctor was himself an amateur printmaker and gave Van Gogh a varnished copper plate, helping him print it on his own small hand press. For his first attempt, Van Gogh depicted Gachet seated in his garden smoking a pipe.- ?-1948(William H. Schab Gallery, New York, NY)November 3, 1948The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- There's Nothing Like the Real Thing: Van Gogh at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 17-December 5, 2021).Van Gogh Repetitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 2-May 26, 2014).The Milieu of Edvard Munch. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-June 5, 1977).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1948.303