a. Read: ‘Boch’.

1. This was The Alpilles with a hut (F 622 / JH 1766 ), see letter 798, n. 8. For Rod’s Le sens de la vie, see letter 783, n. 5.

2. Eugène Boch, The Agrappe mine in Frameries, Borinage (The Crachet-Pecry mine) (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 595 .

3. For Ernest Quost, Easter flowers , see letter 866, n. 10.

4. Georges Jeannin was represented at the Salon by the paintings The centenarian and Camellias and tulips. See exhib. cat Paris 1890-1, p. 100, nos. 1275-1276.

5. Quost lived at 74 rue de Rochechouart in Paris; the ‘park’ must refer to one of the parks where he painted.

6. Doctor Gachet with a pipe (F 1664 / JH 2028 ). The original copper plate is preserved in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. See Van Heugten and Pabst 1995, pp. 79-86, 99-106.

7. For the exhibition of Raffaëlli’s work, which had lasted until 21 June 1890, see letter 876, n. 1.