How an Old Postcard Led Art Historians to the Spot Where a Distraught Van Gogh Made His Final Painting “Tree Roots”

The great artist Vincent van Gogh was painting just hours before his fatal, likely self-inflicted shooting—and now it would appear that we know exactly where, thanks to the discovery of a historical postcard of a bicyclist on the Rue Daubigny in Auvers-sur-Oise, the town 20 miles north of Paris where Van Gogh spent his final days.

The breakthrough was made by Wouter van der Veen, the scientific director of the Institut van Gogh, a nonprofit in charge of preserving Van Gogh’s Auvers lodgings, in the Auberge Ravoux inn.

Source : How an Old Postcard Led Art Historians to the Spot Where a Distraught Van Gogh Made His Final Painting | artnet News