“A visual recreation of the witch-hunt in the Basque Country during the middle ages, based on the world that these women described to the inquisitors when they made them confess by torture and threats.”
Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Collection Gallery, Room 02, North Walln
For most of 1888, Vincent van Gogh rented a room above the Cafe de la Gare in Arles, near the train station. It was probably there that he met Joseph-Etienne Roulin, a mail handler who became his close friend as well as an important subject for his paintings.