Van Gogh - The Master after The Master! - "The sadness will last forever"

 

Newgate Prison Exercise Yard, Gustave Doré

Engraving from London, a Pilgrimage, by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, 1872. 

Prisoners' Round, also known as 'The Prisoners' Round', or Prisoners Exercising, or Penitentiary, is a February 1890 painting by Vincent Van Gogh  (after Gustave Doré) The late work was painted at Saint-Paul Asylum in Saint-Rémy when Vincent was chronically depressed probably from a Dutch magazine in the Asylum. A few months later in the summer Vincent shot himself just below the heart and though he lingered for two days he must have been in intense pain and his last words to his brother Theo who wrote to their sister Elisabeth 'Lies' reporting that Vincent had said

"La tristesse durera toujours"