Vincent: March 18, 1888
A Danish artist, Christian Vilhehn Mourier-Petersen, who’s 30, accompanies Vincent on his outings each day.
Vincent has prepared three paintings for the Société des Artistes Indépendants next week.
The neighbourhood around Place Lamartine where Van Gogh was based in Arles, showing the former locations of the Hôtel Restaurant Carrel on rue de la Cavalerie, the Café de la Gare and the building Vincent ultimately moved into, known as “the Yellow House”.
None of these places has survived, and gone too is the railway bridge that used to carry the trains across the Rhône River after they’d rumbled over the arc of the track at the bottom of this picture.
