Geographic biography · Netherlands, England, Belgium, France

Van Gogh's houses: all his addresses, from Zundert to the Auberge Ravoux

A life of thirty-seven years, four countries, twenty-one cities and a dizzying succession of presbyteries, pensions, rented rooms, workshops and institutions.

This guide distinguishes between houses still standing, buildings destroyed, locations discussed and places actually visitable. It follows each known residential step without transforming archival uncertainty into a precise false address.

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Historical photograph of Zundert Square with the native presbytery of Vincent van Gogh
Zundert: The native rectory was on the Markt, left. Archive published by Van Gogh Route.
Real facade of 87 Hackford Road in London where Van Gogh lived
87 Hackford Road, London.
Historical photograph of the Ravoux family in front of the inn where Vincent van Gogh lived
Ravoux family in front of the inn.
1853 -90from Zundert to Auvers-sur-Oise
4 countriesNetherlands, England, Belgium, France
21 citiesthe great European itinerary
70 daysin the last room in Auvers

Short answer

How many houses did Van Gogh live in?

The figure most often cited is thirty-eight addresses, but it is not thirty-eight houses, all identified and still visible.

Van Gogh never owned a house. Until his death, he lived with his parents or brother, rented furnished rooms, shared modest pensions and sometimes transformed precarious accommodation into a studio. His only attempt at a truly personal home was the Yellow House of Arles: he wanted to combine it with daily life, work and a community of artists. The experience only lasted a few months.

Saying "all your addresses" therefore requires a method. We include the main homes, the identified pensions, the prolonged returns to his family, the hospital rooms which temporarily replaced his accommodation and the last three days spent at Theo's in Paris. On the other hand, a work address, a busy café or a friend's house does not automatically become a residence. Doctor Gachet's house, for example, is essential in Auvers but Van Gogh did not live there.

Street names have changed, cities have renumbered their homes and several buildings have disappeared. In Antwerp, "194 rue des Images" corresponds to the old numbering of the Lange Beeldekensstraat; in Hoogeveen, two locations are still debated; in London and Paris in 1875, the first rooms are simply not known. These blanks are not faults of history: they show the mobile and poorly documented condition of a young employee, teacher then preacher without fortune.

The last stage is the best preserved. The Auberge Ravoux, today Van Gogh's House, still presents small room n° 5 under the attic. The official website describes it as the painter's only home preserved in its original state. Other places to visit are remodeled buildings, room reconstructions, museums installed on the site of a missing house or private exteriors.

38

The reference number

Auberge Ravoux has thirty-seven addresses before Auvers. It should be read as a biographical total, not as a definitive cadastral inventory.

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Our detailed steps

Returns to Zundert, London, Etten and Arles as well as hospital stays are distinguished to make the journey understandable.

1

An intact house

The Auberge Ravoux room remains the most authentic residential testimony; many other facades have been modified or destroyed.

Complete timeline

Forty-one residential stages, from 1853 to 1890

Historical numbers are retained when documented. Status describes the building, not just the location.

N° Dates City Address or accommodation What you need to know Status
01 1853 - 1864 Zundert Presbytery, Markt 26 Birthplace and childhood. The current museum occupies the site, but the original building has been demolished. visitable site
02 1864 - 1866 Zevenbergen Zandweg 40A, now Stationsstraat 16 Jan Provily Boarding School. The building still exists but is no longer a school. standing
03 1866 - 1868 Tilburg Hannik family, Korvel 57; current site Sint Annaplein 18 -19 Accommodation during studies at Willem II college. The house has disappeared. disappeared
04 1868 - 1869 Zundert Return to the presbytery, Markt 26 Eighteen months with his parents before his first job in The Hague. visitable site
05 1869 - 1873 The Hague Pension Roos, Lange Beestenmarkt 32 First long pension during his apprenticeship at Goupil & Cie. disappeared
06 may-august 1873 London Suburban pension, address unknown First London accommodation; the archives do not allow us to assign a reliable number to it. unknown
07 1873 - 1874 London 87 Hackford Road Pension of Sarah-Ursula Rent. House preserved and become Van Gogh House London. visitable according to program
08 august-oct. 1874 London Pension Parker, Ivy Cottage, Kennington Road The dedicated Van Gogh Route page gives n° 395; another page from the same network mentions 295. The building has disappeared. number discussed
09 oct. -dec. 1874 Paris Temporary transfer to Goupil, unidentified accommodation A short professional stay, insufficiently documented on a residential level. unknown
10 jan.-may 1875 London Return to Parker Pension, Kennington Road Van Gogh returns to the Parkers after his transfer to Paris. disappeared
11 1875 - 1876 Paris Small room in Montmartre, address unknown He works at the Paris branch of Goupil; no certain address is kept. unknown
12 1 -April 13. 1876 Etten Presbytery, Roosendaalseweg 4 Return of family after his dismissal from Goupil. house disappeared
13 apr.-june 1876 Ramsgate 11 Spencer Square He stayed at William Stokes' school where he was an assistant teacher. documented location
14 june-dec. 1876 Isleworth Linkfield House, 183 Twickenham Road Stokes School moves near London; Van Gogh teaches there then preaches. documented location
15 jan.-may 1877 Dordrecht Tolbrugstraat Waterzijde A312 Room with the Rijken family while employed in a bookstore. House demolished in 1964. disappeared
16 may 1877 - July. 1878 Amsterdam At Uncle Jan's house, Grote Kattenburgerstraat 3 He unsuccessfully prepares for the theology entrance exam in the naval arsenal field. transformed/disappeared
17 jul.-august 1878 Etten Presbytery, Roosendaalseweg 4 Brief transition to his parents before the evangelical school in Brussels. house disappeared
18 august-nov. 1878 Laeken Plugge family, 6 towpath Pension during his trial period as an evangelist. site transformed
19 dec. 1878 Pastures At Benjamin Vanderhaegen, 39 rue de l’Église Accommodation for a few weeks with the evangelist-colporter. historical address
20 1878 - 1879 Wasmes Denis family, 81 rue du Petit-Wasmes; today rue Wilson 221 House of farmer Jean-Baptiste Denis in the heart of the mining borinage. preserved /restored
21 august 1879 - July. 1880 Cuesmes Chez Édouard Francq, 5 rue du Pavillon Van Gogh shares the daily life of a miner's family and draws the surroundings. disappeared
22 jul. -oct. 1880 Cuesmes Decrucq family, 3 rue du Pavillon The Van Gogh House known as the Maison du Marais preserves the memory of the moment when he chose art. museum
23 oct. 1880 - Apr. 1881 Brussels 72 boulevard du Midi A small dark room, used during his first systematic learning of drawing. disappeared
24 apr.-nov. 1881 Etten Presbytery, Roosendaalseweg 4 First real family workshop in the annex; breakup after the conflict around Kee Vos. house disappeared
25 jan. -jul. 1882 The Hague Schenkweg 138 First rooms rented as accommodation and independent workshop. disappeared
26 jul. 1882 -Sept. 1883 The Hague Schenkweg 136, then Schenkstraat 13 Larger accommodation shared with Sien Hoornik and his children. disappeared
27 sept. -oct. 1883 Hoogeveen Pension Hartsuiker: Pesserstraat 24 or Grote Kerkstraat 51 Two competing identifications remain; any absolute certainty would be misleading. location debated
28 oct. -dec. 1883 Nieuw-Amsterdam/Veenoord Pension Scholte, District E n° 34; today Van Goghstraat 1 The front part is preserved and Van Gogh's room has been reconstructed. museum
29 21 -25 Dec. 1883 The Hague Kosthuis No. 1, Assendelftstraat 16 Very brief return to package and ship his drawings left at Sien. disappeared
30 dec. 1883 -May 1885 Nuenen Presbytery, De Berg F523; today Berg 26 At his parents' house, with a small room transformed into a workshop. Existing house, private. visible exterior
31 may-nov. 1885 Nuenen Workshop rented from Schafrat Two rooms now serve as housing and a workshop after the death of his father. disappeared
32 nov. 1885 -Feb. 1886 Antwerp 194 rue des Images; current Lange Beeldekensstraat 224 Room and small workshop with the Brandel family. Building preserved, not visitable. standing/private
33 march -june 1886 Paris Chez Theo, rue Laval Apartment too small for an easel; the exact number is less solidly documented than the street. partial address
34 june 1886 - Feb. 1888 Paris 54 rue Lepic Large apartment shared with Theo, with a view of the roofs of Montmartre. standing/private
35 feb.-may 1888 Arles Hotel-Restaurant Carrel, 30 rue de la Cavalerie; current rue Amédée-Pichot First Arlesian bedroom and covered terrace used as a workshop. disappeared
36 may-sept. 1888 Arles Café de la Gare, 30 place Lamartine Pension of the Ginoux couple, while waiting for the Yellow House to be habitable. transformed/disappeared
37 sept. 1888 -May 1889 Arles Yellow house, Place Lamartine Workshop rented from May, then home from September. Destroyed by the bombings of 1944. destroyed
38 dec. 1888 -May 1889 Arles Former Hôtel-Dieu, current Espace Van Gogh Successive hospital stays between returns to the Yellow House. visitable courtyard
39 may 1889 - May 1890 Saint-Rémy Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, chemin Saint-Paul Sick room and separate workshop room. Reconstruction accessible in the cultural part. visitable site
40 17 -19 May 1890 Paris Chez Theo et Jo, 8 cited Pigalle Three days with family between leaving Saint-Rémy and leaving for Auvers. private site
41 May 20 - Jul 29. 1890 Auvers-sur-Oise Auberge Ravoux, room n° 5, 52 -56 rue du Général-de-Gaulle Last home. The attic is preserved and open to visitors during the season. visitable

1853 -1869 · Brabant

Three childhoods: the presbytery, the boarding school, the student room

Before the nomadic artist, there was a pastor's son trained between family garden, school discipline and first departures.

Zundert Square with the former native presbytery of Vincent van Gogh
Zundert. The presbytery visible in this historic photograph no longer exists. The current Vincent van GoghHuis, at Markt 26, occupies its location and dates from 1903. Source: Van Gogh Route.
Former Zevenbergen boarding school where Vincent van Gogh studied
Zevenbergen. The former Zandweg boarding school, now Stationsstraat 16, is still standing but is not a museum. Source: Van Gogh Route.

Zundert is not the original house

Confusion is common. Today we visit a birth museum installed on the plot of the presbytery where Vincent was born on March 30, 1853. The current building was built after the disappearance of the family home. The garden, the neighboring church, the cemetery where the stillborn brother also bore the first name Vincent rested and the agricultural landscape remain the main material landmarks.

At eleven years old, leaving for Zevenbergen introduced an experience that would return throughout his life: the rented room and the feeling of only being passing through. In Tilburg, he lives with the Hannik family while attending Willem II college. Korvel 57's house has disappeared, but the site is reported; the old drawing room of the school is today the Vincents Tekenlokaal.

These addresses do not yet produce the large paintings, but they form a memory of rooms, gardens and paths. In Saint-Rémy, decades later, Van Gogh wrote that he revisited in thought each of Zundert's rooms, the plants in the garden and the surrounding fields.

The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh, work from the Dutch period
The memory of rural Brabant will culminate much later in Potato Eaters, painted in Nuenen in 1885.

1869 -1881 · Employee, teacher, preacher

From The Hague to Borinage: living with others

Van Gogh went through business pensions, English schools, an uncle's home and miners' homes before declaring himself an artist.

87 Hackford Road in London, real house where Van Gogh stayed in 1873 and 1874
London, 87 Hackford Road. Pension Loyer is one of Van Gogh's first houses still recognizable. Today it hosts exhibitions and artist residencies according to programming.
Denis House in Wasmes where Van Gogh lived in Borinage
Wasmes. At Jean-Baptiste Denis, Vincent shares the harshness of Borinage. The historic address 81 rue du Petit-Wasmes today corresponds to rue Wilson 221.
Van Gogh house in Cuesmes linked to the painter's stay in Borinage
Cuesmes. Maison Van Gogh preserves the memory of the accommodation at Charles Decrucq, 3 rue du Pavillon, where his decision to become an artist matured.
Old view of Boulevard du Midi in Brussels where Van Gogh rented a room
Brussels, 72 boulevard du Midi. The building has disappeared. In this cramped room, Van Gogh works on drawing with a new discipline. Archive published by Van Gogh Route.
Former presbytery of Etten where Van Gogh lived and worked
Etten. The presbytery of Roosendaalseweg 4 no longer exists; a plaque marks the location where Van Gogh stayed several times.
01

Pension as a world

In The Hague then London, the young employee observes families, customers, streets and national habits. The Rent pension gives him a feeling of home; the disappointment in love associated with Eugenie then darkens the stay.

02

School as accommodation

In Ramsgate and Isleworth, the line between work and home disappears. He sleeps in the institution where he teaches, walks a lot and begins preaching in neighboring neighborhoods.

03

The miner's house

In Borinage, he abandons the social distance of the preacher. The modest housing of Wasmes and Cuesmes becomes the place of identification with workers and a crisis of vocation.

04

Apprentice room

In Brussels, he no longer wants to become an art dealer or pastor. The tiny room turns into a makeshift studio: copies, anatomy, perspective and hard work.

1881 -1888 · Birth of the painter

The Hague, Drenthe, Nuenen, Antwerp, Paris: each room changes the painting

The accommodation becomes a workshop, the window becomes a motif and the neighborhood enters directly into the work.

Historic location of Schenkweg 138 in The Hague where Van Gogh rented a workshop
The Hague, Schenkweg 138. First independence as an artist, then living together with Sien at n° 136. The old district has completely disappeared.
Van Gogh Huis in Nieuw-Amsterdam Veenoord, former Scholte pension
Veenoord, Van Goghstraat 1. The old facade of the Scholte pension remains on the left; the museum returns the room where Van Gogh lived and worked for two months.
Presbytery of Nuenen where Van Gogh lived with his parents
Nuenen, Berg 26. The presbytery still exists but remains private. Van Gogh received a service room there as his first workshop before renting the Schafrat premises.
House of Lange Beeldekensstraat in Antwerp where Van Gogh rented a room
Antwerp. The old "rue des Images" became Lange Beeldekensstraat. The house at n° 224 is preserved, but cannot be visited.
54 rue Lepic in Montmartre where Vincent van Gogh lived with Theo
Paris, 54 rue Lepic. Theo and Vincent shared this apartment from June 1886 to February 1888. The view of Montmartre became the subject of paintings.
Self-portrait with felt hat by Vincent van Gogh painted in Paris
Paris changes the palette. The meetings with Signac, Bernard, Toulouse-Lautrec and the impressionists lightened the color; self-portraits often replace a model that is too expensive.
Reproduction of Painted Potato Eaters in Nuenen
Potato Eaters, summary of the Nuenen period.

The real domestic turning point is Nuenen

In The Hague, Van Gogh learns to run a workshop and attempts a family life with Sien. In Drenthe, the inn room opens onto a landscape of peat bogs and cabins. But in Nuenen, for the first time, he has the time, models and space stable enough to build a large-scale pictorial project.

The presbytery is tense: his father has difficulty accepting his trajectory and family conflicts are constant. Van Gogh gradually moved his activity towards the rooms rented to the Catholic sacristan Johannes Schafrat. There, he poses peasants, gathers head studies and prepares Potato Eaters.

In Antwerp, the room looks out of the backyards; in Paris, 54 rue Lepic opens onto the air and roofs. Between the two, the palette changes from deep brown and green lands to contrasts of blue, orange, red and yellow. Read our article on Van Gogh in Paris.

1888 -1890 · Arles, Saint-Rémy, Auvers

The last three bedrooms: a dream, an institution, an attic

The Yellow House, Saint-Paul-de-Mausole and the Auberge Ravoux condense all the tension between autonomy, care and work.

Van Gogh's Yellow House in Arles, building now destroyed
Arles, Place Lamartine. The Yellow House was destroyed in 1944. The image survives mainly by the painting painted in September 1888.
Van Gogh's Room in Arles in the Yellow House
The room as a self-portrait. Simple furniture, colorful walls, sloping perspective: Van Gogh wanted to paint rest, but the space seems to vibrate.
Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence where Van Gogh was hospitalized
Saint-Paul-de-Mausole. Van Gogh receives a bedroom and a separate room for painting. The historical part and a reconstruction of the room are accessible to the public.
Starry Night painted by Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy
Saint-Rémy, 1889. The view from the windows, the memory and the invention are recomposed in Starry Night.
Ravoux family in front of the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise
Auvers-sur-Oise. The Ravoux family in front of the inn where Van Gogh rented room n° 5 from May 20, 1890.
The Church of Auvers-sur-Oise painted by Vincent van Gogh
Seventy days, nearly eighty works. From the Auberge Ravoux, Van Gogh travels through the village, the gardens and the Vexin plateau.
Arles

The dream home

The Yellow House was to be the Atelier du Midi, a place where artists would live and work together. Gauguin stayed there for nine weeks; the crisis of December 1888 broke the project.

Saint-Rémy

The guarded room

Van Gogh voluntarily enters Saint-Paul-de-Mausole. The setting limits his movements, but the workshop room and the garden support exceptional production.

Paris

Three days with family

Upon his release, he found Theo, Jo and their son Vincent Willem at 8 Cité Pigalle. This very brief stop precedes the choice of Auvers, calmer and closer to Doctor Gachet.

Auvers

The last attic

Room n° 5 is bare, lit by a skylight and too small to paint large formats. Van Gogh works outside and keeps his paintings in another room.

Journey in his footsteps

Eight residential locations to see today

"Visiting a house" might mean entering a room, seeing a private facade, or discovering a museum built on the original location.

Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise, Van Gogh's last house
Auvers-sur-Oise · the essential

Auberge Ravoux, room n° 5

The last home is the most moving and best preserved residential place. The guided tour includes Vincent's room, that of the painter Anton Hirschig and a screening dedicated to his stay in Auvers.

For the 2026 season, the official website announces the opening of the room from March 4 to November 22, Wednesday to Sunday. Check schedules and reservations before traveling.

Official information →
Historic site of the native presbytery in Zundert
Zundert · birth museum

Vincent van GoghHuis

The museum occupies the site of the native presbytery, not the original house. The church and the cemetery allow us to place childhood in the village.

Understand the site →
Van Gogh House London at 87 Hackford Road
London · preserved house

Van Gogh House London

87 Hackford Road hosts exhibitions, artist projects and events. Access depends on programming: it is not a permanently open house museum.

See the heritage network →
Van Gogh House in Cuesmes in Borinage
Cuesmes · Borinage

Van Gogh House

La Maison du Marais evokes the decisive months when Van Gogh moved from religious mission to drawing. It is one of the rare accessible accommodations from the Belgian period.

See address →
Van Gogh Drenthe Museum in the former Scholte pension
Veenoord · Drenthe

Van Gogh Huis Drenthe

The front part of the old pension is preserved and the room has been reconstructed. The landscape of canals and peat bogs extends the visit.

See address →
Van Gogh Presbytery in Nuenen, private house
Nuenen· private exterior

The presbytery and Van Gogh Village

The presbytery of Berg 26 cannot be visited. The village museum, the church, the garden and the numerous painted sites, however, offer the densest route of the Dutch period.

Explore Nuenen in painting →
Saint-Paul-de-Mausole Monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Saint-Rémy · historical institution

Saint-Paul-de-Mausole

The cultural part presents a reconstruction of the room and the cloister. A clinic remains in operation: the visit must respect this care function.

Explore Saint-Rémy →
Ravoux inn and village of Auvers-sur-Oise
Auvers · complete route

From the bedroom to the fields

After the attic, walk towards the church, Doctor Gachet's house, rue Daubigny, the fields of the plateau and the tombs of Vincent and Theo.

Explore Auvers in painting →

Travel advice

Private houses should only be observed from public spaces. Hours, restorations and access arrangements change: always consult the official website of each location before traveling. A plaque does not allow entry or photography of the interior.

Read the houses in the tables

What homes reveal about paint

The addresses are not a simple biographical appendix: they explain the size of the works, the models available, the palette and the relationship to the landscape.

01

The window is a frame

In Antwerp, Paris and Saint-Rémy, the view from the bedroom or workshop directly structures paintings. Window, balcony and skylight transform the city or garden into a composition.

02

The rent regulates the format

A small bedroom limits canvases, storage and models. The larger rooms of Nuenen and Arles make series, portraits and decorative projects possible.

03

The house provides the models

Families of residents, neighbors, farmers, owners and doctors enter the work. The Ravoux, the Ginoux, the De Groot and Sien are linked to specific addresses.

04

The interior becomes manifest

The room is not a neutral statement. Van Gogh simplifies objects and inflects perspective to express an idea of rest, color and focus.

05

The start restarts the palette

Each trip forces a new response: browns from Brabant, grays from Borinage, greens from Drenthe, Parisian contrasts, yellows from Arles, blues from Saint-Rémy.

Addresses in painting

Seven works to follow Van Gogh from house to house

The reproductions connect each period to its workspace: Nuenen, Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers.

Reproduction of Van Gogh's Potato Eaters
Nuenen · 1885

Potato Eaters

The major project born between the presbytery, the Schafrat workshop and the De Groot family house.

See the work →
Reproduction of The Room in Arles by Van Gogh
Yellow house · 1888

The Room in Arles

The most famous interior in art history, painted as an image of rest and identity.

See the work →
Self-portrait in Van Gogh's felt hat
Paris · rue Lepic

Self-portrait with felt hat

Parisian color and the economy of a painter who takes himself as a model.

See the work →
Van Gogh's Yellow House in Arles
Arles · place Lamartine

The Yellow House

The only home that Van Gogh arranged according to his idea and the heart of the Atelier du Midi project.

See the work →
Van Gogh's Starry Night painted in Saint-Rémy
Saint-Rémy · 1889

Starry Night

A view reconstructed from the landscape of the asylum, memory and a deliberately amplified sky.

See the work →
The Church of Auvers-sur-Oise by Van Gogh
Around June 1890

The Auvers Church

A few minutes from the Auberge Ravoux, the real architecture becomes unstable, nocturnal and almost alive.

See the work →
Wheat field with crows by Vincent van Gogh
Around July 1890

Wheat field with crows

A late landscape of the plateau, often wrongly presented as its last certain painting.

See the work →

Important collections

Explore Van Gogh by address, period and reason

Each collection extends a segment of the journey and connects the places to the paintings that were designed there.

Artist

Vincent van Gogh

Netherlands

Nuenen period

Montmartre

Van Gogh in Paris

Yellow house

Van Gogh in Arles

Asylum and garden

Saint-Rémy

Last months

Auvers-sur-Oise

Atelier

Self-portraits

Outside

Landscapes of Van Gogh

Amsterdam

Van Gogh Museum

Movement

Post-impressionism

Selection

Popular 100 Van Goghs

Masterpieces

Famous paintings

Continue the journey

Six articles for entering houses by works

Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers form the best documented chapters of the last trajectory.

Paris

The color explodes

Rue Lepic, workshops, avant-garde and palette transformation between 1886 and 1888.

Arles

Fifteen months in the South

Hotels, Café de la Gare, Maison jaune, Gauguin and great Provençal motifs.

Interior

The Room in Arles

The three versions, the perspective, the colors and the furniture of the Yellow House.

Saint-Rémy

The sky is twisting

Room, enclosed garden, olive trees, cypresses and work during the stay in Saint-Paul.

Auvers

The last paintings

Seventy days between the Auberge Ravoux, Doctor Gachet and the Vexin fields.

Yellow house

Sunflowers

A decoration designed for Gauguin's bedroom and which has become the emblem of Arles.

Shop

Auvers Collection

Church, fields, gardens, houses and portraits from the last period.

Shop

Arles Collection

The Room, the Yellow House, the cafes, the Rhône, the orchards and the Sunflowers.

Frequently asked questions

van Gogh House FAQs

How many addresses did Van Gogh have?

The official website of Auberge Ravoux indicates thirty-seven other addresses before his last home, making thirty-eight in total. The number varies depending on the method: returns to the same house, very brief pensions and hospital stays can be counted separately. Our chronology distinguishes forty-one residential stages to make these movements visible.

What is Van Gogh's birthplace?

Van Gogh was born in the Zundert rectory, on the site of present-day Markt 26. The original building was demolished; the Vincent van GoghHuis today occupies the plot in a construction dating from 1903.

Which Van Gogh house can be visited in its original state?

The Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise, and especially room n° 5, constitutes the most faithfully preserved home. The official website presents it as the only house where Van Gogh lived preserved in its original state.

Does the Yellow House of Arles still exist?

No. The building on Place Lamartine was seriously damaged during the Allied bombings of 1944 and then demolished. The location can be spotted, but the house visible in the painting no longer exists.

Can we visit Van Gogh's room in Arles?

There is no original room kept in the Yellow House. Museographic reconstructions exist elsewhere, notably at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam depending on the exhibitions. In Arles, you can visit the courtyard of the old hospital which became Espace Van Gogh.

Where did Van Gogh live in Paris?

In the spring of 1886, he joined Theo in a small apartment on rue Laval. In June, the two brothers moved to 54 rue Lepic, in Montmartre, where Vincent remained until his departure for Arles in February 1888.

Where did Van Gogh live in London?

His first pension in 1873 is not identified. He then lived at 87 Hackford Road with Ursula Loyer, then with the Parkers at Ivy Cottage on Kennington Road. The Parker number is given as 395 by the dedicated Van Gogh Route page, while another page mentions 295; the house has disappeared.

Did Van Gogh live with Doctor Gachet?

No. In Auvers, he visited Doctor Gachet and painted his house and garden, but he rented room n° 5 of the Auberge Ravoux, near the town hall.

In which house did Van Gogh paint The Potato Eaters?

The painting was prepared in Nuenen thanks to numerous studies by the peasants of De Groot. Van Gogh then worked between the family presbytery and the workshop rented to the Schafrats; the scene depicted is located in the house of the De Groot family, which was not his home.

Did Van Gogh own the Yellow House?

No. He rented it from May 1888, first as a workshop then as accommodation from September. He paid the rent with financial assistance from Theo.

Which houses are the most interesting to visit?

For a first route, choose the Vincent van GoghHuis in Zundert, the Van Gogh Huis Drenthe in Veenoord, Van Gogh Village in Nuenen, the Maison Van Gogh in Cuesmes, Saint-Paul-de-Mausole and especially the Auberge Ravoux. In London, 87 Hackford Road depends on the programming.

What was Van Gogh's last address?

L'Auberge Ravoux, room n° 5, place de la Mairie, today 52 -56 rue du Général-de-Gaulle in Auvers-sur-Oise. He lived there from May 20 until his death on July 29, 1890.

Verified sources

Archives, heritage routes and official information

Addresses and dates were compared primarily with Van Gogh Route, Van Gogh Europe, the Art Institute of Chicago timeline and Van Gogh's House.

Van Gogh Road

Houses and pensions

Localized files, old numberings, dates of stay, condition of buildings and associated letters.

Art Institute of Chicago

Nomadic Life Timeline

Illustrated chronology of moves, rooms, workshops and works produced.

Van Gogh Europe

Heritage Sites

European network of heritage places linked to the life and work of the painter.

House of Van Gogh

Ravoux Inn

Current address, 2026 season, visit to room n° 5 and number of other homes.

Zundert

Native presbytery

Dates of the two stays and distinction between the destroyed house and the current museum.

London

87 Hackford Road

Pension Rent, dates of residence and current condition of the building.

Drenthe

Address Hartsuiker

Transparent presentation of the two locations offered in Hoogeveen.

Auvers

Last home

Installation at the inn, room, Ravoux family and last months of the painter.

Van Gogh almost never had a house of his own. Yet he transformed each room into a starting point to the world.

From Zundert's garden to the skylight of the Auberge Ravoux, the addresses tell less of a collection of facades than of a way of working: observing from a window, walking to the motif, returning to paint in a room that is too small, then leaving.

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