Vincent had always wondered about death and resurrection.
Copying Rembrant’s work, just before leaving Saint Rémy, he represented himself (it was in fact his last autoportrait), under the features of a Lazare brought back to life, apparently striving to get up. He’s surrounded by two panic-stricken, almost frightened women: “ I made three figures who are in the background of the etched Lazare : the dead and his two sisters. The cave and the corpse are purple yellow white. The woman who takes the hanky from the risen from the dead man’s face has a green dress and orange hair, the other has black hair and wears striped clothes in green and pink. Behind them, a country, blue hills, a yellow rising sun”.
Was it him, the “corpse” and the “risen from the dead”?