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Van Gogh moves to Paris in 1886 and works among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures

In 1886 Van Gogh moved to Paris and worked among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1886 Van Gogh moved to Paris and worked among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures. The instrument is that looking-term, not a salon he founded. Vincent van Gogh's documented role is: He lived with Theo and saw dealers' stock. Pissarro, Signac, Bernard, and others are named neighbours, not employees.

Context

Theo's Paris flat and shop are the named doors. Sharing those doors is required. Arles is later. The setting of Van Gogh moves to Paris in 1886 and works among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures is the public file around 1886-03-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Goupil/Boussod dealing remains Theo's office. Mixed effects of Van Gogh moves to Paris in 1886 and works among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures are separate paths.

Why it matters

Improving path from Van Gogh moves to Paris in 1886 and works among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures on 1886-03-01. A dated Paris looking-and-making term is an education path. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Vincent van Gogh

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.44 · verified

    He lived with Theo and saw dealers' stock. Pissarro, Signac, Bernard, and others are named neighbours, not employees.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Musée d'Orsay — Van Gogh works neighbourhoodMusée d'Orsay · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Met Heilbrunn — Vincent van GoghMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Musée d'Orsay — Van Gogh works neighbourhood at https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks?s=van%20gogh (opens in a new tab) (Musée d'Orsay). Independent locator: Met Heilbrunn — Van Gogh in Paris neighbourhood at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm (opens in a new tab) (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Official carrier: Musée d'Orsay — Van Gogh works neighbourhood (https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks?s=van%20gogh (opens in a new tab); Musée d'Orsay). Independent carrier: Met Heilbrunn — Van Gogh in Paris neighbourhood (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm (opens in a new tab); Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Established: a sourced public record of Van Gogh moves to Paris in 1886 and works among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures under 1886-03-01 for Vincent van Gogh. Established: a sourced public record of Van Gogh moves to Paris in 1886 and works among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures under 1886-03-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Van Gogh moves to Paris in 1886 and works among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures. Naming Vincent van Gogh does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1886-03-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorVincent van Gogh
  2. contributed toFactVan Gogh moves to Paris in 1886 and works among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Van Gogh moves to Paris in 1886 and works among Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist pictures. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-paris-1886

https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-paris-1886

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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