A railway accident. Lithograph by Paul Van Rijssel (Paul-Ferdinand Gachet), 1879.

Paul Gachet

[1879?]

1 print : lithograph, in black ink on grey-blue paper

Wellcome Collection

A lithograph depicts a railway crash that occurred on January 17, 1879, at La Chapelle, where a train was hit by a runaway locomotive. Based on a railway crash in which Gachet was involved as a passenger, on 17 January 1879. At La Chapelle, the evening train from Paris to Auvers was hit side-on by a runaway locomotive: Gachet received contusions around his liver (Distel and Stein, loc. cit.)