Presentation of the conservation-restoration work carried out on a wallpaper of the house of Doctor Gachet

Name: Présentation des travaux de conservation-restauration menés sur un papier-peint de la maison du docteur Gachet
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Maison du Docteur Gachet

Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 10h30, 12h00Passé

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©Conseil départemental du Val d'Oise. Photo Catherine Brossais

The two restorers of the heritage, graduates of the National Institute of Heritage offer you to show their work done on the wallpaper and the house of Doctor Gachet. Intervening this winter, during the closure of the site, Elodie Remazeilles and Louisiana Rios intervened to remove dust, consolidate, fill the original wallpaper of the house Gachet. They explain their intervention and its objectives.
This restoration was funded by the Departmental Council of Val d'Oise and the DRAC.

À propos du lieu

Maison du Docteur Gachet

78 rue du Docteur-Gachet 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise

Val-d'Oise
Île-de-France

On May 20, 1890, Vincent van Gogh climbs the stone steps that lead to the house of Doctor Gachet and makes it history. The house and the garden are listed in the Inventory of Historical Monuments. Owned by the Val d'Oise General Council, the house opened its doors to the public on March 30, 2003, the 150th anniversary of the painter’s birth. It offers visitors a sensitive route, a refined evocation of a rich past. The garden, twice painted by Van Gogh, presents some of the emblematic plants of the homeopathic pharmacopoeia scattered among ivy, asters and boxwood. From 1872, when he bought the house in Auvers-sur-Oise, Doctor Gachet drew and graved with Pissarro, Cézanne, Guillaumin… It is in Auvers that Vincent van Gogh realizes his only etching "L'Homme à la pipe", portrait of Doctor Gachet whose General Council acquired a print in 1997\. The hand press, which had been sold to the painter Anti Hajosi by Paul Gachet in 1943, was taken up again in the house thanks to the loan of the pai