1. These ‘larger’ photographs are not known. See for the photographs sent prior to this: letters 463 and 465. Small cartes de visite of works that were part of the decoration for Hermans had already been enclosed with letter 466.

2. Little is known of the work that Van Rappard did during his stay in Nuenen. See exhib. cat. Amsterdam 1974, p. 90.

3. Van Gogh – like many of his fellow-countrymen – remained ignorant about Impressionism for a long time: see letter 288, n. 4 and Tempel 1999.

4. Avenue of poplars in autumn (F 122 / JH 522 ). The work measures 99 x 66 cm.

5. It is impossible to tell which of Courbet’s numerous studies of heads Van Gogh has in mind here. Cf. Pierre Courthion, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Courbet. Paris 1996.

6. See for this ‘large bust’ of a shepherd letter 466, n. 4.

7. A reproduction of a charcoal drawing after Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Le cabaret, dit à tort Intérieur de ferme (The inn, wrongly called Farm interior), 1881 (private collection) was printed as a supplement in La Vie Moderne 4 (20 May 1882), between pp. 320-321. Ill. 211 .