Borrowing from the cybersecurity lingo, what I do in this chapter could be compared to constructing a sandbox environment. It is a restrained playground where I experiment with the application of the central distinctions and conclusions presented in Chaps. 2 and 4 . To be specific, I play here with the general naturalistic approach, as well as the basics of Roth’s historical irrealism, by applying them to an actual historiographical discussion. I take my whole approach to the issues discussed in this chapter as exemplifying the naturalistic approach I defend here in this book, inclusive of the literature and sources I select. The particular discussion I choose concerns the life and death of the painter Vincent van Gogh. It must be noted that the literature on Van Gogh is a massive and multi-genre affair. I am thus deliberately limiting myself to accounts of his (alleged) suicide death. Apart from engaging with the commonly accepted facts, contexts, and debates, my controlled environment is historiographically shaped predominantly by the theory/explanation advanced by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith in their Van Gogh: The Life (2011). Naifeh and Smith challenge the widely accepted theory that Van Gogh committed suicide, by offering an alternative explanation respecting the majority of known facts about Van Gogh.