Exhibition at the museum
A Friend of Cézanne and Van Gogh: Doctor Gachet (1828-1909)
From January 30th to April 26th, 1999
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Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
Main picture modal
Le docteur Paul Gachet, en 1890
Musée d'Orsay
Don de Paul et Marguerite Gachet, enfants du modèle, 1949
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
See the notice of the artwork
This exhibition was originally announced for the Musée d'Orsay, but it has been transferred to the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. It pays homage to a quite extraordinary amateur of painting, the doctor Paul Gachet, who was himself a painter and engraver as well as a medical doctor and a close friend of Cézanne, Pissarro, Guillaumin, Monet and Renoir from the early days of Impressionism. He is particularly well known for having welcomed Vincent van Gogh to Auvers-sur-Oise during the last weeks of his life in 1890. A large part of his collections was given to French national museums by his children in the years 1949 to 1958.
The exhibition is now over.
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