1. This was letter 760.

2. Salles had sent the prospectus with his letter to Theo of 19 April 1889 (FR b1050). The complete text of an 1866 brochure is included in Coquiot 1923, pp. 201-211. Cf. also the photographs of a prospectus preserved in the Tralbaut archives (Van Gogh Museum, Documentation) and the illustration in exhib. cat. New York 1986, p. 26.

3. In this letter, dated 24 April 1889, Theo wrote to Dr Théophile Peyron, director of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, that he hoped ‘you will have no objection to allowing him the freedom to paint outside the institution when he wishes to do so’ (que vous ne trouverez aucun inconvenient en lui accordant la liberté, de faire de la peinture en dehors de l’établissement quand il le désirera). See Documentation, 24 April 1889. Peyron received his letter through Salles; see letter 763.

4. On 31 March Mrs van Gogh and Willemien had travelled with Theo from Breda to Amsterdam (FR b2432), where they stayed until after the wedding, which took place on 18 April.

5. Regarding Rembrandt’s Jewish bride , see letter 430, n. 10.

6. For the paintings by Hals in Haarlem, see letter 130, n. 2.

7. Now ‘Circle of Rembrandt’, The dead woman (Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts). Ill. 364 .

8. From 8 to 15 April there were sketches and drawings by Anton Mauve on display at C.M. van Gogh’s gallery at Keizersgracht 453. The Amsterdam society Arti et Amicitiae had held a viewing of these studies on 28 March. See De Groene Amsterdammer, 14 April 1889 and De Amsterdammer. Dagblad voor Nederland, 27 March 1889 and 9 April 1889.

9. Theo probably received as a present Mauve’s Study of a flock of sheep (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum), Ill. 2281 which has Sketch of a landscape with sheep on the verso.