12 letters found

1. 552 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, between Tuesday, 12 and Saturday, 16 January 1886.

   in translation:

   Last Sunday I saw the two large paintings by Rubens for the first time, and because I’d looked at t...

   Nothing moves me less than Rubens when it comes to the expression of human sorrow. Let me start by sa...

   ...e same, I adore it because it is precisely he, Rubens, who seeks to express a mood of gaiety, of sere...

   ... you like, not even Manet or Courbet, set as their aim, any more than Rubens or Veronese did.

   I’ve also seen various other Rubens paintings &c. in several churches. And it’s very interesting ...

   in note 8:

   ...an Gogh could have seen the following works by Rubens in Antwerp churches: also in the cathedral hung...

   in note 6:

   ... between the High Renaissance and the Baroque. Rubens was influenced by Romano and copied his work. S...

   in note 1:

   Rubens, The descent from the Cross, 1612, in the south aisle of the transept in the Cathedral of Our ...

2. 547 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, Monday, 14 December 1885.

   in translation:

   Rubens is certainly making a strong impression on me. I find his drawing immensely good, by which I m...

   I’m also looking for a blonde model just because of Rubens.

   ...xample. For instance, I asked him things about Rubens’s technique, to which he replied in a way tha...

   ...hich isn’t afraid of frank technique. I like Rubens precisely because of his straightforward manner...

   ...brandt’s Saskia, a number of countenances by Rubens, smiling or weeping, that come most to my mind....

   in note 5:

   See for Rubens, St Theresa: letter 544, n. 8.

   in note 4:

   ...useum voor Schone Kunsten has various works by Rubens and Jordaens; see letter 544, and cat. Antwerp ...

3. 551 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Saturday, 2 January 1886.

   in translation:

   ...s. The shadows in the flesh are very powerful, Rubens doesn’t have that and Jordaens often does, an...

   ...me in that church was a sketch by Van Dyck? or Rubens? — a Descent from the Cross that was hanging ...

   There you have some very famous Rubens — Virgin with the parrot, Christ on the straw &c., but for m...

   in note 12:

   He must mean Rubens’s Jan Gaspar Gevartius, c. 1628. Ill. 1607.

   in note 11:

   Peter Paul Rubens, Christ on the straw, c. 1618. Ill. 1297.

   in note 10:

   Peter Paul Rubens, Virgin with a parrot, c. 1614. Ill. 1304. The works of art Van Gogh refers to here...

4. 543 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 20 November 1885.

   in translation:

   As for Rubens, I’m very much looking forward to him, but — don’t you often find that in terms o...

   in note 4:

   The views of the courtly Rubens as against the human Rembrandt echo what Fromentin and Thoré had wri...

5. 686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.

   in translation:

   ...at tones, are admirable for the same reason as Rubens and Veronese. I know perfectly well that this i...

   Exactly as in the past it was in bad taste to like Rubens, Jordaens, Veronese.

   I’ve read that Rubenses in Spain have remained infinitely richer in colour than those in the north....

   in note 14:

   ... 8 above), he may have based his comment about Rubens on the article ‘Les maîtres Espagnols et lâ€...

6. 539 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 7 November 1885.

   in translation:

   ...that De Goncourt would deny the superiority of Rubens, say — Rubens, who was still more productive ...

   Which in Rubens very often does not detract from the poignancy and intimacy that I mean, particularly...

   in note 2:

   ...lle) appears on p. 239, and the nude women and Rubens are discussed on pp. 210, 217-218. The source f...

7. 029 To Theo van Gogh. London, between Monday, 4 January and Friday, 5 March 1875.

   in translation:

   ...ns Hals, Van Dyck. A landscape with figures by Rubens, a landscape, an autumn evening, by Titian. 2 p...

   in note 14:

   Peter Paul Rubens, Flat landscape with clouds, after 1635 (Birmingham, The Barber Institute of Fine A...

8. 655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.

   in translation:

   ... a handsome man and a good fucker, Courbet too; their health allowed them to drink, eat, fuck.Rubens

   in note 12:

   Van Gogh may have deduced that Rubens was virile and sexually active from the fact that in 1630, at t...

9. 544 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 26 November 1885.

   in translation:

   ... women’s heads, above all, are prime quality Rubens. I was particularly struck by the Frans Hals, T...

   in note 8:

   Peter Paul Rubens, St Theresa of Avila through Christ’s intervention rescuing Bernardinus of Mendoz...

10. 535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.

    in translation:

    Now — I saw a sketch by Rubens and a sketch by Diaz, too, as it were at the same time. They were by...

    in note 9:

    The sketch by Peter Paul Rubens is Christ carrying the Cross, 1634-1637 (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). Ill...

11. 536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.

    in translation:

    ...urist among the colourists, a colourist like Veronese, like Rubens, like Delacroix, like Velázquez.

    in note 17:

    ... d’autrefois had also called Hals, Veronese, Rubens and Velázquez true colourists (see Fromentin 1...

12. 115 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 21 and Tuesday, 22 May 1877.

    in note 25:

    ...ers to paint beautiful ladies of 30 years old. Rubens goes without difficulty to 40 and above. Van Dy...

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1. Chronology

   in 1886:

   10 January *Visits the Cathedral to see the paintings by Rubens (552).