Travel notes on the town of auvers-sur-oise｜ Entering the town in Van Gogh’s paintings
nice weather sunday
Went to the small town of auvers-sur-oise around Paris
And because this is the town where Vincent Van Gogh lived during the last days of his life and was buried here after committing suicide, it is also called Van Gogh Town.
It's not far from Paris. You can reach Auvers by taking the direct H line at Gare Saint-Lazare or Gare du Nord or changing to the RER line C.
Auvers is covered by the Navigo 5 circle, so friends with a Navigo card can ride to the town for free.
La Maison VAN GOGH
van gogh's home
On May 20, 1890, Vincent van Gogh moved into an ordinary loft of 7 square meters in the Auberge Ravoux hotel for 3.50 francs per day.
Room 5, lit by a simple skylight, is furnished with only a single bed, a chair, and built-in cabinets for a few clothes and personal belongings.
Van Gogh only stayed here for 70 days, and this was also his last home in his life.
During Van Gogh's 37 years of life, he stayed at no less than 37 addresses and moved through many countries: the Netherlands, Belgium, England and France.
But this one is the only house where Van Gogh lived that has been preserved in its original state.
Photography is not allowed, this is a picture from the official website
Theo van Gogh was there to attend Van Gogh's final moments on 28-29 July 1890.
Later, out of superstition, the "Suicide Man's Bedroom" became an important part of the painter's sensitive world and was never rented out again.
On the same floor, room 6 houses another lesser-known painter, Anton Herschig, a friendly neighbor of Van Gogh.
The attic was small and dark, and when I climbed up, I smelled a unique smell of wood.
When the tour guide was explaining, I put my hand on the door of Room 5 and imagined him holding the wall with his hands full of paint every day as he entered the door, put the painting on the ground, and then slammed himself into the bed.
On June 10, 1890, he wrote in a letter to his brother Theo: One day, I think I will find a way to have an exhibition of my own in a cafe.
This sentence was displayed in this small room, and the expectation for the future and the despair of reality were strongly collided by this sentence in this 7-square-meter house.
Just like the great and sad soul carried in that fragile and sensitive body, it is still trembling in Room 5 of the attic of Auberge Ravoux.
Exit small skylight
The Auberge Ravoux hotel has been open since 1876. I was not able to go in because it was not open during opening hours.
The hotel has a slogan like this - We appreciate simple people and we tolerate complex ideas.
“I take every day the anti-suicide remedy prescribed by the incomparable Dickens. It consists of a glass of wine, a loaf of bread and cheese, and a pipe of tobacco. You will tell me it is not complicated […] ”.
1889 Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister Willemien
This package is still available in the menu.
When I came out of the room and went down the stairs, I saw the interior of the restaurant.
Le Cimetière / Tombe de Vincent Van-Gogh
Van Gogh and his brother are buried here
After greeting the Vincent brothers
We walked around this cemetery for a long time, looking at each tombstone one by one.
Perhaps in Chinese culture, it is always taboo to have anything to do with cemeteries.
But I don’t have this concept. French cemeteries are always very close to residential areas. There is a large cemetery and the famous Paris Catacombs next to my house. I always see a lot of people walking their dogs and taking walks there.
The French blur time and the two sides, and my feeling is my existence.
I went to the tombs one by one to see the birth and death times of those people and their names.
There are many tombstones for couples buried together, tombstones commemorating their children, and even family tombstones.
Some years are so old that they are in dilapidated state, and there are also two or three "new members" of the cemetery. When you see the bright flowers in front of the grave, you know that the tears of his relatives and friends have not dried yet.
Some tombstones are really exquisite and beautiful.
I also saw a scene of an old woman. Instead of a cross, she placed her own photo in the middle, surrounded by several cute objects. I guessed they were her favorite things during her lifetime.
If I die,
They burned all the Thai magazines for me, and Lee Ji-hoon’s baby held my ashes.
Put my polaroid photo in the middle, and then start to move the photo in a circle, from EXO to Seventeen, from Offgun to Li Haihai.
You don’t need an epitaph and don’t hold that kind of funeral for me. Please rent me a private theater and let my relatives and friends go in and watch my favorite MVs, TV series and movies. This will be the last amway after my death.
Finally, I want to set up a ten-year WiFi package in front of my grave, so that everyone can dance at my grave.
Next to the cemetery is a wheat field, which is also a famous painting by Van Gogh.
Le champ de blé aux corbeaux
The filming location of Wheat Field with Crows
The original painting is now on the top floor of the Van Gogh Museum in Amstel, the Netherlands.
When we saw the original picture, my senior sister and I were both shocked by the sadness of the painting and shed tears.
This painting was probably painted on July 10th, and the day I went there was July 3rd.
But when I'm in a wheat field in the sun, with a dark sky, three hesitations in different directions and black crows, the premonition or even the sign of death is completely absent.
Van Gogh was sad in his heart, even masochistic and unwilling to let go of himself.
I don’t understand it, but it’s beautiful today and so is his tomb.
The last location we went to was the home of the doctor who cared for Van Gogh.
La Maison du DR GACHET
In addition to being a general practitioner, Paul Ferdinand Gachet is also an artist.
He studied painting and sculpture, participated in many societies while working as a doctor in Paris, came into contact with thinkers, writers, painters and poets, even willingly exchanging consultations for a painting, a concert ticket or a theater seat.
He collaborated with Camille Pissarro and Paul Cezanne and Armand Guillaume to form a sculptural quartet.
In 1874, Impressionism's founding exhibition brought him into contact with Édouard Manet and Auguste Renoir.
As a member of the Société des Éclectics, of which he became president in 1887, he participated in the "Lamarck Dinner" and the "Red and Blue Dinner" instituted in honor of the naturalist,
There he met the young Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh.
In the backyard of the doctor's house is a hollowed-out cave.
There is a sentence written on it - "Skills are valuable and lasting".
I originally suspected it was in Japanese, but I checked and couldn't find it.
I think it should be the second half of the sentence "People are valued for their ambition, and learning is valued for their perseverance".
But the doctor changed the word "study" in the second half of the sentence to "skill".
There is also a saying at the door of the doctor's house on the second floor,
I didn't recognize this sentence at all and didn't know what it meant. I thought it was Japanese.
The next day I went back to the office and asked An An, who is proficient in Japanese, and she said no.
Maybe it's fake Chinese or odd-shaped characters, or maybe it's the old Vietnamese characters.
So Lin Bei and I began to actively search, first looking up Vietnamese character lists, and then starting to look up the characters.
Finally, I found that it was Chinese characters, official script,
From the poem "Inscribed on Master Li Zunshi's Song of the Pine Tree Shoko" by Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty: "I know that the immortal guest wants to have a blind date, but I feel that the good heart is lonely."
A good worker refers to a skilled craftsman.
This sentence describes the works of outstanding artists who put a lot of thought into the creation process.
This is Liang’s way of writing in official script, but everyone’s style is different.
A simple little exhibition was going on at the doctor's house;
Exposition Blanche Derousse (1873-1911),
artist et élève du docteur Gachet
This is the first retrospective exhibition of female artist Blanche Derousse (1873-1911).
An artist and student of Gachet, she is an accountant,
Close ties to the entire Gachet family.
The exhibition presents 12 reproductions of the artist's watercolors held by the Musée d'Orsay, 12 reproductions of prints from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, prints from the Tavet Museum in Pontoise and a work from the Daubigny Museum in Auvers, among others. .
Worth a visit for those who are interested.
But in addition to Van Gogh, this town also housed many other 19th-century landscape painters, and now also houses many artists, such as Charles François Daubigny.
Auvers is like an open-air museum. The roads are named after artists. Within two steps, you will find a small studio. The walls are art, the mailbox is art, and even the flowers on the roadside are beautiful.
Le Château D’Auvers-Sur-Oise
The castle belongs to the Espremenil family.
In 1890, the castle inspired a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh: "Château de Auvers at Sunset".
Today, the castle is an Impressionist museum.
Downstairs in the castle, in a simple cave room, there is a special exhibition dedicated to the artist Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.
Entitled “Les Jardins Secrets de Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923), De Montmartre à la vallée de L’Oise »
The purpose is to promote the artists of the Impressionist movement and their contemporaries.
The most famous one is the cat expert and Swiss painter Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.
The main exhibit is the poster he designed for a dance hall in Montmartre, Paris, in 1896.
——Tournée du Chat noir Tournée du Chat noir
This 1896 black cat later became a classic image in pop culture.
This town is not big, and the main attractions are concentrated in the city center, which is only a five-minute walk away. The farthest is the doctor's home, which takes 20 minutes to walk.
We walked around for more than 4 hours and then we were ready to go back to Paris
Although there are no original paintings by Van Gogh here, everywhere Van Gogh tells us about the beauty of the countryside through his paintings. In addition, today is the first Sunday and everyone has gone to Monet's Garden. It can be said that there is almost no one in Van Gogh Town.
Good weather and beautiful scenery are reasons for happiness
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