Van Gogh’s Tarascon Stagecoach (October 1888) is the finest of the 63 works being donated by the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation to three of America’s leading museums. Sketch of Tarascon Stagecoach in Vincent’s letter to Theo, 13 October 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)On 13 October 1888 Vincent sketched the painting in a letter to his brother Theo. ​In 1895 Rosso’s friend, the Uruguayan artist Milo Beretta, was about to leave Paris for Montevideo when he was given Tarascon Stagecoach. It would not be until 17 years later that the first Van Gogh works came to the United States. ​After Beretta’s death in 1935 Tarascon Stagecoach passed to his six daughters, who stored it in a bank vault.