Why it matters
An old man sits by the fire with his face buried in his hands. Van Gogh painted it in May 1890 in Saint-Rémy, while recovering from a severe relapse, about two months before his death, reworking a lithograph he had made in The Hague eight years earlier.
Did you know?
- The model for the original drawings was a pensioner and war veteran, Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland.
- The first drawing, titled Worn Out, dates from 1882.
- Van Gogh wrote that 'a painter has a duty to try to put an idea into his work'.
Based on the Wikipedia article At Eternity's Gate (CC BY-SA 4.0).
