French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise

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Patients suffering from cholera in the Jura during the 1854 epidemic, with Dr Gachet attending them. Pencil drawing by A. Gautier, 1859.

Paul Ferdinand Gachet. Etching by V. van Gogh, 1890.

Paul Ferdinand Gachet. Drypoint by B. Derousse after N. Goeneutte, 1891.

Jours de consultations : Lundi, Mercredi, Vendredi de 3 h, res. à 5 h res. : prix 5 francs : 9, Rue de Montholon.

Antiseptique du Docteur Gachet : prix 3 francs : Phie 80, Faubourg St.-Denis, Paris.

Doctors and artists / Michael Webber.

Cézanne to Van Gogh : the collection of Doctor Gachet / Anne Distel and Susan Alyson Stein.

Le Docteur Gachet et Murer : deux amis des impressionnistes / Paul Gachet.

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck. Etching by P. F. Gachet.

Étude sur la mélancolie / [Paul Ferdinand Gachet].

A railway accident. Lithograph by Paul Van Rijssel (Paul-Ferdinand Gachet), 1879.

Étude sur la mélancolie / par Gachet (Paul-Ferdinand).

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Paul Gachet

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Works from the collections

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck. Etching by P. F. Gachet.

A railway accident. Lithograph by Paul Van Rijssel (Paul-Ferdinand Gachet), 1879.

Jours de consultations : Lundi, Mercredi, Vendredi de 3 h, res. à 5 h res. : prix 5 francs : 9, Rue de Montholon.

Étude sur la mélancolie / par Gachet (Paul-Ferdinand).

Étude sur la mélancolie / [Paul Ferdinand Gachet].