# Van Gogh enters the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum at Saint-Rémy on 8 May 1889

Date: 1889

## The fact

On 8 May 1889 Van Gogh entered the Saint-Rémy asylum. The instrument is that confinement. Starry Night remains a neighbouring making-row, not a deletion of the lock. Vincent van Gogh's documented role is: He requested and entered confinement. Dr Peyron's house held him.

## Context

Theo arranged. Dr Peyron is the named director. Sharing that house is required. The setting of Van Gogh enters the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum at Saint-Rémy on 8 May 1889 is the public file around 1889-05-08. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver health-system-capacity is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Van Gogh Museum — Saint-Rémy asylum neighbourhood at https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890 (Van Gogh Museum). Independent locator: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Saint-Rémy period at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Van Gogh Museum — Saint-Rémy asylum neighbourhood (https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890; Van Gogh Museum). Independent carrier: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Saint-Rémy period (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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

## Significance

Worsening path from Van Gogh enters the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum at Saint-Rémy on 8 May 1889 on 1889-05-08. A dated asylum confinement is a health-and-liberty path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

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

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Van Gogh enters the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum at Saint-Rémy on 8 May 1889 under 1889-05-08 for Vincent van Gogh. Established: a sourced public record of Van Gogh enters the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum at Saint-Rémy on 8 May 1889 under 1889-05-08.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not convert each asylum canvas into a second confinement. Do not store a unique diagnosis code not in the two sources. Mixed effects of Van Gogh enters the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum at Saint-Rémy on 8 May 1889 are separate paths.

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

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

Shared responsibility is part of Van Gogh enters the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum at Saint-Rémy on 8 May 1889. Naming Vincent van Gogh does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1889-05-08 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh
- https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-saint-remy