9/22/2023 0 Comments Lefaucheux revolver a brocheThe weapon is typical of the time: a 7mm pinfire pocket revolver – known as a pistolet à broche – designed and manufactured by French gunsmith, Casimir Lefaucheux.Īs luck would have it, say munitions experts, the tortured artist could hardly have chosen a more unsuitable weapon. This was taken to be the gun that fired the fatal shot. However, 70 years later – in around 1960 – a farmer working his fields discovered an old, heavily corroded weapon which had been in the ground for between 50 and 80 years. The weapon used by Van Gogh wasn’t found at the time. He managed to make his way back to the hostel where he was staying, but died there two days later, aged 37. Van Gogh shot himself in the chest in the countryside outside Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris on July 29th, 1890. The gun used by angst-ridden Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh to kill himself more than a century-and-a-quarter ago is to go on public display for the first time in Amsterdam this summer.
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