A railway accident. Lithograph by Paul Van Rijssel (Paul-Ferdinand Gachet), 1879.

  • Gachet, Paul Ferdinand, 1828-1909.
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[1879?]
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591292i
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L'accident
La catastrophe du 17 janvier 1879

Description

Based on a railway crash in which Gachet was involved as a passenger, on 17 January 1879. At La Chapelle, the evening train from Paris to Auvers was hit side-on by a runaway locomotive: Gachet received contusions around his liver (Distel and Stein, loc. cit.)

Publication/Creation

[Auvers-sur-Oise], [1879?]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, in black ink on grey-blue paper ; image 17.5 x 29.5 cm

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PVR

References note

Paul Gachet, Le Docteur Gachet et Murer: deux amis des impressionnistes, [Paris] 1956, pp. 80-81 and fig. 42
Anne Distel and Susan Alyson Stein, Cézanne to Van Gogh: the collection of Doctor Gachet, New York 1999, p. 282

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Wellcome Collection 591292i

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