Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Vincent van Gogh
1890
Medium
Etching in black on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 18.2 × 14.8 cm (7 3/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 20.5 × 17.2 cm (8 1/8 × 6 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
88393
About the Artist
Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) stands as one of the most influential figures in Western art history, despite a career spanning merely a decade. Born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, to a Protestant pastor's family, van Gogh's path to artistic greatness was anything but conventional. His early adulthood saw him working as an art dealer for Goupil & Cie, a language teacher, and a fervent missiona...