The Painter on the Road to Tarascon is a self-portrait Vincent van Gogh painted in 1888, showing himself walking the sunlit road to Tarascon burdened with his easel, canvas, and painting sticks, a scene he described in a letter as a quick sketch of himself laden with boxes on the sunny Tarascon road. The painting belonged to the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Germany and was moved for safekeeping to a salt mine at Stassfurt during the Second World War, where fires broke out in April 1945 after American forces arrived; the work is listed as missing by the Monuments Men Foundation and is believed destroyed.
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LocationMissing since 1945, last held at Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Stassfurt 1 Listed as missing and believed destroyed in 1945; no current location is known. Year Created Medium
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Sources
1. The Painter on the Road to Tarascon, Wikipedia
Infobox, Year
Year: 1888
Infobox, Medium
Medium: Oil-on-canvas
History
The painting is listed as 'missing' on the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art's website.
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The Painter on the Road to Tarascon is a self-portrait Vincent van Gogh painted in 1888, showing himself walking the sunlit road to Tarascon burdened with his easel, canvas, and painting sticks, a scene he described in a letter as a quick sketch of himself laden with boxes on the sunny Tarascon road.
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