1. The artists’ supplies shop run by Guillaume Charles Tasset and his (unidentified) partner Lhote, 31 rue Fontaine-Saint-Georges in Paris.

2. ‘Chrome yellow 1, 2 and 3’ refer to ‘lemon’, ‘yellow’ and ‘orange’ respectively.

a. Read: ‘partie’.

3. Van Gogh probably bought his paint from the grocer and chemist Jules Armand; see letter 583, n. 8.

4. See for this absorbent size 30 canvas: letter 594, n. 2. One of the two works on non-absorbent canvas was the ‘new orchard’ that Van Gogh mentions a little later in the letter (the sentence ‘while waiting ... non-absorbent canvas’ (en attendant ... non absorbante) (ll. 81-81a) was added later). We do not know which work this was; all the orchards that are now known have already been mentioned or are referred to later in the correspondence. The other work cannot be identified either. It was probably another orchard (Van Gogh’s use of the words ‘a new orchard’ would not seem to indicate this, but orchards were his only subject during this period) and has been lost. In letter 606 Van Gogh says he has destroyed works; these two may have been among them.

5. The station in Paris from which trains for the south depart.

6. Van Gogh had written this in letter 592.

7. Van Gogh sent Theo the first batch of paintings from Arles on 7 May; see letter 606, n. 4.