Van Gogh's La Croqueuse du Jardin: Letters from Provence
Paris. 1889. Just before the completion of the Eiffel Tower and the opening of theExposition Universelle, Emma du Jardin collapses after the sudden death of her baby. Her husband removes her from Paris to an asylum in far away Provence. During the months of her confine-ment, Emma writes to her sister, recounting her struggle to regain her emotional balance and describing her life with the eccentric asylum residents. Emma's letters resurrect her granddaughter's lingering uncertainty. Was her grandmother the friend, muse, and lover of Vincent van Gogh? Is the portrait La Croqueuse du Jardin. which still graces the family's dining room wall an original van Gogh painting?
In 2005, Rose Forcir unearths a cache of well-preserved letters written by her grandmother over one hundred years earlier. These letters resurrect a lingering suspicion of Rose’s. Was her grandmother the friend, muse, and lover of Vincent van Gogh? Was the painting La Croqueuse du Jardin, which still graces the dining room wall of the family home, painted by this genius?
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Van Gogh's La Croqueuse du Jardin: Letters from Provence