Houses in Auvers

Catalogue numbers: F 759, JH 1988.

Van Gogh lived his last two months in Auvers. He painted some eighty works in that time - an average of more than one a day. He painted thirteen portraits in a very few weeks, a rate of production that he had scarcely achieved even in Nuenen. The town of Auvers itself had the perfect atmosphere. Decades previously, Daubigny had bought a plot of land there and tempted Daumier and Corot to follow him. Van Gogh had a tendency to follow in someone or other's footsteps, and in Auvers it was an easy and natural thing to do.