Doctor of medicine.

Raise with the college of Arles, student in Montpellier, internal in Avignon, then Arles. From 1890 to 1894, Doctor Rey sails in the capacity as medical doctor, then it settles in Arles where it exerts until his death.

There acquires in 1907 the Farmhouse of the Bridge of Rousty (current seat of the Regional natural park of the Camargue) to which he will remain very attached.

Nothing intended this doctor from Arles to become famous in the whole world. On December 25th, 1888 the police force brings certain a Vincent Van Gogh, arising Dutch to him, saying painter. The man was found inanimate, bathing in his blood in his residence of the Lamartine place. The day before, it cut the ear to offer it to a prostitute.

Young the 23 year old doctor, sensitive and devoted, understands that the artist is not a lunatic like the others. He commits himself trying to look after it, receives his Théo brother, with whom he will correspond. Later, it is him which will put an end to the internment of Van Gogh, consecutive with a petition of some From Arles.

Meanwhile, the two men tie increasingly cordial relations and, in testimony of affectionate recognition, the artist makes a portrait of his friend and offers to him. But Van Gogh leaves for Saint-Paul-to-Mausole and they will hardly any more be seen.

If Van Gogh will not know the glory of alive sound, carried it of Doctor Rey failed well, as for him, to remain completely been unaware of: the mother of the doctor, who hated the painter, used the table to clog a netting of hen house. He was discovered in 1901 and was sold with five other fabrics to a tradesman. He is today with the Pouchkine Museum of Moscow.