A revolver believed to have been used by famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh has been sold at a Paris auction.

The revolver Van Gogh allegedly used to kill himself had been featured in a 2016 exhibit at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum and has now sold for $212 000.

The weapon was discovered in the 1960s in the northern French village of Auvers-sur-Oise, where Van Gogh is believed to have committed suicide in 1890.

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