# Arles neighbours petition in February 1889 to have Van Gogh confined or removed

Date: 1889

## The fact

In February 1889 Arles neighbours petitioned to have Van Gogh confined or removed. The instrument is that petition-and-order, not a trial transcript with a unique jury. Vincent van Gogh's documented role is: Named neighbours petitioned the mayor. Police and hospital executed confinement. He did not write the petition.

## Context

The mayor and police share the order. Sharing those offices is required. The setting of Arles neighbours petition in February 1889 to have Van Gogh confined or removed is the public file around 1889-02-27. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion 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. Do not invent a unique signature-count beyond the public file. Saint-Rémy transfer is later May. Mixed effects of Arles neighbours petition in February 1889 to have Van Gogh confined or removed are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Van Gogh Museum — Arles petition neighbourhood at https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890 (Van Gogh Museum). Independent locator: Vincent van Gogh The Letters — 1889 Arles confinement neighbourhood at https://vangoghletters.org/vg/ (Van Gogh Museum / Huygens ING). Official carrier: Van Gogh Museum — Arles petition neighbourhood (https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890; Van Gogh Museum). Independent carrier: Vincent van Gogh The Letters — 1889 Arles confinement neighbourhood (https://vangoghletters.org/vg/; Van Gogh Museum / Huygens ING).

Official or archival record: Van Gogh Museum — Arles petition neighbourhood (https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890; Van Gogh Museum).

## Significance

Worsening path from Arles neighbours petition in February 1889 to have Van Gogh confined or removed on 1889-02-27. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Arles neighbours petition in February 1889 to have Van Gogh confined or removed under 1889-02-27 for Vincent van Gogh. Established: a sourced public record of Arles neighbours petition in February 1889 to have Van Gogh confined or removed under 1889-02-27.

Shared responsibility is part of Arles neighbours petition in February 1889 to have Van Gogh confined or removed. Naming Vincent van Gogh does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1889-02-27 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.

## People

- Vincent van Gogh: https://factrail.ai/people/vincent-van-gogh

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://vangoghletters.org/vg/
- https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-petition