Where was Van Gogh staying when he started the first version ?
He had found the rest he could not find on earth ... " Émile Bernard , an artist and friend of van Gogh , who arrived in Auvers on 30 July for the funeral , tells a slightly different story , explaining that van Gogh went out into the countryside on the Sunday evening , " left his easel against a haystack and went behind the château and fired a revolver shot at himself . "