By Vincent van Gogh – Museum Page (the image was stitched from tiles – for assembly method used see The Potato Eaters), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22030423

Van Gogh started painting in 1880 at the age of 28. Boy with a Sickle is the earliest work of his I could find.

Saint-Remy-de-Provence is my favorite town in Provence. Among the things you can see there is the place Van Gogh spent his last years, the Monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole‘s institution for the mentally ill.

By EmDee – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7355597

This haunting work is from the year of his death and was painted while Van Gogh lived in the asylum in St Remy-de-Provence. The blond prisoner looking at us looks a lot like Van Gogh himself. The scene represented is not a realistic depiction of the asylum but is inspired by a Gustave Dore engraving named Le Bagne.