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170 letters found

160 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Monday, 1 November 1880.
in note 6:
...Roelofs), Vincent went to visit Anthon Gerard Alexander van Rappard. Theo must have met Van Rappard ...
in note 7:
Van Rappard was a well-to-do member of the nobility.
in translation:
Also went to see Mr Van Rappard, who now lives at rue Traversière 64, and have spoken to him. He has...
161 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, end of December 1880 - beginning of January 1881.
in translation:
I’ve seen very little of Mr Van Rappard because I believed I had noticed that he didn’t like to b...
163 To Theodorus van Gogh and Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Brussels, on or about Wednesday, 16 February 1881.
in note 2:
...ainters with whom Van Gogh was in touch, Anthon van Rappard and Willem Roelofs, because they were bot...
164 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Saturday, 2 April 1881.
in note 26:
There are no known examples of work by Van Rappard made during the time he spent at the Brussels Acad...
in note 27:
‘Voila... encore’ must refer to the above-mentioned Van Rappard.
in translation:
...you told us about the painter Heyerdahl has greatly aroused the interest of both Rappard and myself.
...uld you think best? I can carry on working at Rappard’s for a week or so, but then he’ll probabl...
...rning one thing and another, and will work at Rappard’s in the meantime. Rappard has really painte...
165 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Tuesday, 12 April 1881.
in translation:
...ness, also because I sketched two drawings at Rappard’s, ‘The lamp-bearers’ and ‘The bearers...
166 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, on or about Saturday, 30 April or Sunday, 1 May 1881.
in note 23:
Anthon van Rappard finally left on 10 May. See exhib. cat. Amsterdam 1974, p. 11.
in note 24:
Starting in October 1879, Van Rappard spent six months in Paris, where he attended the academic lesso...
in translation:
Rappard is going to Holland in 3 weeks, and will probably carry on working in the countryside this su...
167 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, second half of May 1881.
in note 8:
Van Rappard actually visited Van Gogh in June; see letter 168.
in translation:
Perhaps Rappard will be coming here for a while this summer, I’ve had a letter from him.
168 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, end of June 1881.
in note 5:
The other known drawings by Van Rappard which date from this period are: The parsonage at Etten, date...
...oth watercolours) were possibly made during Van Rappard’s stay in Etten: Street in a village and F...
in translation:
I must tell you that Rappard was here for 12 days or so, and has now left. Naturally he sends you his...
...he so-called Passievaart, a huge marsh. There Rappard painted a large study (1 metre x 50 cm), much ...
It seems to me that Rappard really is progressing in his work, from what he told me he seems to have ...
Rappard appears to keep his own boat there at Loosdrecht, that’s rather jolly.
... me a catalogue from the Salon, please do so. Rappard told me that he was also going to buy all of C...
in note 19:
Van Rappard had spent some time in Paris (see letter 166).
in note 1:
It is not known exactly when Anthon van Rappard’s visit took place; see Date. In the introduction t...
in note 2:
...a village approximately 5 km west of Etten, Van Rappard made the drawing Landscape near Seppe, dated...
in note 3:
...he remains of an old peat canal (RAW). Here Van Rappard made the drawing The Passievaart near Seppe,...
170 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 5 August 1881.
in translation:
...s really a wonderful time to draw, I’d like Rappard to come here again then. I also hope to succee...
in note 10:
Van Rappard had spent some time in Etten in June; see letter 168.
172 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, mid-September 1881.
in translation:
...gs at any rate. I’ve had a good letter from Rappard who seems to be hard at work, he sent me some ...
174 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Wednesday, 12 October 1881.
in note 5:
In June Van Rappard had spent about twelve days in Etten (see letter 168).
in note 7:
Van Gogh did in fact send sketches to Van Rappard (see letter 176, nn. 4 and 7).
in translation:
My dear Rappard,
in note 11:
This sepia drawing by Van Rappard is not known.
176 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Saturday, 15 October 1881.
in note 7:
This remark indicates that Van Rappard had now seen the sketch Sower with a sack (F 857 / JH 32), mad...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
I take it to mean: ‘my friend Rappard has taken a big step forward or will do so shortly’. In wha...
It’s my view, Rappard, that you must nevertheless work especially from a clothed model.
...udry. The more so because I believe that you, Rappard, will end up settling in Holland. You’re too...
You say, Rappard, that you’ve done next to nothing for a fortnight. I know those fortnights well, I...
Speaking from the heart, I say: ‘Rappard, stay here’. Of course there may be reasons I’m unawar...
in note 10:
Shortly before this (on 4 October), Van Rappard had become a member of the artists’ society Arti et...
in note 2:
Van Gogh refers here to Van Rappard’s plans to go to Brussels to paint from nude models (l. 57).
in note 4:
Van Gogh’s wording suggests that Van Rappard has meanwhile become familiar with a small version of ...
178 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Wednesday, 2 November 1881.
in note 12:
This drawing, made by Van Rappard during his stay in Etten, is Reader (Utrecht, Centraal Museum). Ill...
in note 9:
Van Rappard had visited Etten before going to Brussels; see letter 179.
in translation:
My dear Rappard,
in note 1:
Van Rappard had gone to study at the academy in St Joost-ten-Noode/Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and was now ...
179 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Thursday, 3 November 1881.
in translation:
...ut older and wiser people say it’s nothing. Rappard was here, brought along watercolours that are ...
184 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Saturday, 12 November 1881.
in note 8:
Evidently Van Rappard had finished in 11th (and last) place at a competition, probably having submitt...
in translation:
... yet had a letter from you I thought: perhaps Rappard didn’t like my last letter at all, there see...
...s coarse and harsh than you at first thought? Rappard, why do you think it is that I speak or write ...
Rappard, I believe that even when you’re working at the academy you’re striving to become more an...
Rappard, there are people, and perhaps you and I are such, who don’t understand, until they really ...
Meanwhile, Rappard, that business of the competition I find rather amusing.
186 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 18 November 1881.
in note 5:
...t be the same drawing Van Gogh mentioned to Van Rappard (see letter 184, n. 4). The ‘fire-lighter�...
188 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Monday, 21 November 1881.
in translation:
My dear Rappard.
...esented to you can be reduced to these words: Rappard, don’t hold back, plunge head over heels int...
... person who is now writing to his dear friend Rappard has long gone through the world with one – p...
in note 1:
Siebe Johannes ten Cate was a friend of Van Rappard. Despite Ten Cate’s reservations about the acad...
190 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Wednesday, 23 November 1881.
in translation:
My dear Rappard,
.... And now I’d really like to have my friend Rappard as my travelling companion – it’s not a ma...
You see, Rappard, where I myself seek to go, whither I seek to push others as well, is to become fish...
...any case that I’m more or less insinuating: Rappard, that by sticking so close to the academy you�...
...rgue, my intention nonetheless is: ‘to wake Rappard up’, and I doubt whether in that ‘waking o...
...asure of the man alone. Well, of a certain Mr van Rappard I know, first, his work to some extent, sec...
195 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Friday, 30 December 1881.
in translation:
My dear Rappard,
...ten wrong about things. But if I tell you, Rappard, those academics you worry about aren’t wort...
in note 1:
Van Rappard had studied for a time at the Brussels Academy (see letter 178, n. 1). He had meanwhile r...
216 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 10 April 1882.
in note 3:
...w (F 929 / JH 129) comes from the estate of Van Rappard, to whom Van Gogh must have given it as a pr...
217 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 14 April 1882.
in translation:
I’ve just received a letter from Rappard; was at odds with him for a while, but now we’re both in...
231 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 27 May 1882.
in note 6:
...ld have been Sorrow (F 929 / JH 129), which Van Rappard had had in his possession. See also De la Fa...
in translation:
Today, Saturday, I had a visit from Rappard, and I’m glad that now he has been here. He also asked ...
He saw the drawings I’m doing for C.M. among other things, and they seem to please him, especially ...
Rappard’s visit cheered me up; he seems to be working hard.
232 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 28 May 1882.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
...at’ Van Gogh means the 2.50 guilders that Van Rappard had lent him (see letter 231). He paid this ...
234 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 1 and Friday, 2 June 1882.
in translation:
...ish (mainly SWAIN’S), American, French. And Rappard, for example, who now also collects them, like...
235 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 3 June 1882.
in note 6:
Theo had met Van Rappard earlier in Paris; see letter 160, n. 6.
in translation:
Rappard was pleased with a similar drawing which C.M. has, and moreover with all the others C.M. has....
in note 4:
...undry (F 939 / JH 150). It is stated in letters 231 and 232 that Van Rappard admired both drawings.
236 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Tuesday, 6 June 1882.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
My dear friend Rappard, I really don’t know whether to laugh or weep at this sort of thing. I find ...
237 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 June 1882.
in note 6:
... 236, in which Van Gogh writes at length to Van Rappard about how he replied to Uncle Cor’s reacti...
239 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 22 June 1882.
in note 7:
... that he had judged his drawings so coolly. Van Rappard had seen them and thought them very good. Th...
in translation:
...I must tell you that I’ve had a letter from Rappard. Of course I had immediately returned the 2.50...
240 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Saturday, 24 June 1882.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard
242 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 2 July 1882.
in translation:
...were the ones, especially the large one, that Rappard liked. I’d like you to see them if you visit...
245 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 July 1882.
in translation:
... was sitting in the dunes at Scheveningen. I would like to succeed in making something for Rappard.
251 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 26 July 1882.
in translation:
I’ve also had another letter from Rappard. I take enormous pleasure in the fact that that chap is s...
256 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 13 August 1882.
in note 5:
Van Rappard had stayed with the Van Gogh family in Etten in the summer of 1881: see letter 168.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
Van Rappard was in Drenthe with the painter L.W.R. Wenckebach. See exhib. cat. Amsterdam 1974, p. 12....
257 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 14 August 1882.
in translation:
I received a letter from Rappard yesterday. He has been to Drenthe, and judging by two sketches he se...
in note 21:
... letter 256 of Sunday, 13 August he said that he received Van Rappard’s letter the evening before.
267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
in note 5:
...n Paris: see letter 261, n. 5; also mentioned in the previous letter to Van Rappard: see letter 263.
in note 24:
...��s A miners’ strike; Van Gogh thought that this print would also please Van Rappard (letter 263).
in note 36:
...inter (7 drawings), Drawings, At low tide). Van Rappard, himself a member of L’Essor, was represen...
in note 16:
...rrent, twenty-sixth volume of The Graphic (1882), which may explain why Van Rappard mentioned them.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
I mean it, Rappard. I would rather be a waiter in a hotel, for example, than the sort of watercolour ...
...alone, but I see that he had successors. Yet, Rappard, the age of Balzac and Dickens, the age of Gav...
in note 21:
...au fusain, which Van Gogh had borrowed from Van Rappard as long before as October 1881, see letter 1...
in note 10:
...e Gilbert) in a list of English monograms he was to send to Van Rappard in October (see letter 273).
268 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 23 September 1882.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 11:
Van Rappard had submitted a painting of a Drenthe woman at the spinning wheel (present whereabouts un...
269 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 25 September 1882.
in translation:
I received a letter from Rappard the other day. I wish he lived a little closer.
in note 10:
For this letter from Van Rappard, see letter 268.
272 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 15 October 1882.
in translation:
...depicted. I was very struck by it, and so was Rappard, to whom I sent one too. It was in L’Illustr...
273 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 22 October 1882.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
275 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, between about Tuesday, 24 and about Friday, 27 October 1882.
in note 34:
...copy in the estate. Ill. 660 (t*143). Since Van Rappard gave the title in German, he probably saw it...
in note 35:
It is not clear which print Van Rappard meant by Hubert von Herkomer’s Schwierigkeiten (Hardships)....
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
As requested, Van Rappard sent Van Gogh a list of (duplicate) prints; he would also have told him whi...
in note 2:
Van Rappard must have written about the illustrated book That beautiful wretch. A Brighton story by W...
276 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
277 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in note 6:
On Van Rappard’s work at the Institute for the Blind in Utrecht in the autumn of 1882: exhib. cat. ...
in translation:
This week I received a letter from Rappard, who’s also surprised by the behaviour of many painters ...
in note 4:
This letter from Van Rappard is mentioned in letter 275, which was an answer to it.
278 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
in note 6:
...assage cited below came before the one above; Van Rappard may have turned them round in his extract.
in translation:
... to you about it especially. In a letter from Rappard I received an extract from a lecture by Herkom...
in note 1:
...r wrote. There is no way of knowing whether Van Rappard enclosed the extracts from the article in hi...
279 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
in note 5:
...nd in Herkomer’s article – of which Van Gogh only had Van Rappard’s extract (see letter 278).
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
...t want it to be rightly said of us later: and Rappard and Vincent, too, can be counted among the dec...
in note 19:
For Arti’s refusal of Van Rappard’s work, see letter 268, n. 11.
282 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 14 November 1882.
in translation:
...than that I should work on them. At one point Rappard experimented in the same way with etchings for...
in note 2:
It is not known when these experiments by Van Rappard took place; it appears to have been some time a...
283 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 16 or Friday, 17 November 1882.
in translation:
Rappard writes to me about a new series of drawings of miners by Paul Renouard in L’Illustration. I...
in note 4:
...of Sorrow come from the estates of Theo and Van Rappard. The copy for Heyerdahl is not known, nor is...
284 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Friday, 17 or Saturday, 18 November 1882.
in note 13:
Van Rappard shared Van Gogh’s preference for depicting humble folk and working men.
in note 6:
In November 1882 Van Rappard and Willem Wenckebach had worked together on the large decoration The mu...
in note 7:
...ently been a subject of conversation or correspondence between Van Gogh and Van Rappard in the past.
in note 15:
Van Rappard had probably given Van Gogh a daalder (1.50 guilders) on top of the amount he owed him (s...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
The letter in which Van Gogh wrote to Van Rappard about money that took a long time to arrive has bee...
in note 2:
...urned out that Uncle Cor did not rate them very highly. Van Rappard knew about this from letter 236.
in note 11:
Van Rappard must have written to Van Gogh about a current series of miners’ scenes by Paul Renouard...
in note 3:
...). Copies of both are known to have been in Van Rappard’s possession. Given that Van Gogh admits t...
in note 4:
... the extract from Herkomer’s article that Van Rappard had sent (see letter 279). That the quote ca...
287 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
in note 13:
...s since July 1882 (see letter 243). Perhaps Van Rappard was still sending letters to the old address...
in note 7:
...more about the nature of the proposal. When Van Rappard learned (through a letter that is no longer ...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 10:
Van Rappard’s example may have encouraged Van Gogh to buy a large collection of The Graphic just ov...
in note 2:
Van Rappard already had one lithograph, probably Old man (F 1658 / JH 256), and otherwise Sorrow (F 1...
289 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 1 December 1882.
in translation:
In the last few days I had a letter from Rappard, with whom I’m in correspondence about the trials ...
...t work. But I’ve long been in touch with Rappard on the question of prints for the people, sinc...
Rappard doesn’t, however, view the matter in the way that I would like him to: the thing is, he doe...
in note 10:
‘Technique’ is a euphemism here: Van Rappard had spoken of ‘drawing mistakes’ (see letter 284...
290 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 3 December 1882.
in note 8:
Van Gogh suggests that Van Rappard had a venereal disease (in November 1882 Van Rappard fell seriousl...
in translation:
Yesterday I received a letter, not from Rappard but from his father, telling me that R. is ill. I don...
291 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Monday, 4 and Saturday, 9 December 1882.
in translation:
...ritten to you has been confirmed, namely that Rappard is seriously ill. I’ve again had news from h...
...e, and furthermore being calmly patient. Then Rappard has another thing that in my view means he can...
...ake some progress. As I write to you, news of Rappard that there’s some change for the better, but...
293 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 11 December 1882.
in translation:
A few years ago I went walking with Rappard outside Brussels at a spot they call the Vallée de Josap...
in note 2:
...mer’s article ‘Drawing and engraving on wood’ received from Van Rappard: see letter 278, n. 1.
in note 11:
...ember 1880 and April 1881, when both he and Van Rappard were living in Brussels. Willem Roelofs live...
295 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 22 December 1882.
in translation:
Rappard is still ill, although the crisis is past; his father writes that he’s very weak. What is i...
301 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 13 January 1883.
in translation:
...g for news of you. My blessing in everything. Rappard is getting better, I have a letter from him. I...
302 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 18 January 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
...rtly induced to make this large purchase by Van Rappard’s acquisition of a batch of magazines dati...
304 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 25 January 1883.
in note 38:
...y Caldecott, which he had previously mentioned to Van Rappard; see letters 276, n. 9 and 309, n. 16.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
Oh Rappard — it’s the same as with other things — much that is of great value is paid no attent...
305 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 26 or Saturday, 27 January 1883.
in translation:
This is why I wish Rappard was fully recovered. We don’t actually work together, but we have simila...
307 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 4 February 1883.
in note 5:
...st, because Lhermitte’s name is mentioned for the first time in the present letter to Van Rappard.
in note 6:
...s that Van Gogh (either earlier or with the present letter) sent several lithographs to Van Rappard.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard.
... course, but now I say to you, my dear friend Rappard, I live with a poor woman and two children, an...
308 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 5 February 1883.
in translation:
Rappard wrote to me again this week, will only get back to normal slowly, he wrote, was weak but begi...
...udies from this winter — with you, and with Rappard too, sometime — he’ll come one day when he...
in note 4:
...age about Lhermitte in his latest letter to Van Rappard (letter 307), although there too he again sa...
309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
Van Gogh had written candidly to Van Rappard about the fact that he was living with Sien: see letter ...
310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in translation:
Rappard is getting better — did I write to you that he’d had a nervous fever of the brain? It wil...
311 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 10 February 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.
in note 12:
A few examples of the work Van Rappard did in the autumn of 1882 at the Institute for the Blind in Ut...
in translation:
...ased that in the first letter I received from Rappard after his illness he again wrote with great en...
314 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 13 February 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
317 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 20 February 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
321 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, between about Friday, 23 and Monday, 26 February 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
...17 of on or about 20 February Van Gogh told Van Rappard that he had sent a roll of wood engravings. ...
323 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 3 March 1883.
in translation:
... There’s also another stimulus, namely that Rappard is making an effort too, more than in the past...
Rappard is also working hard with models, and in my view there’s no better way. Especially if one s...
325 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 5 March 1883.
in note 48:
...326 Vincent writes to Theo that he has sent Van Rappard several sketches in natural chalk of ‘our ...
in note 9:
...: letter 267, n. 9. The phrasing shows that Van Rappard has looked for the magazine, but failed to f...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard
...or Ruisdael. Still, I may be mistaken or see more in him later, nothing would please me more.Rappard
326 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 6 March 1883.
in note 5:
...ying forth’) (F 872 / JH 334) was once in Van Rappard’s possession, so it could have been one of...
in translation:
...chalk can be used in several ways. I wrote to Rappard about natural chalk yesterday, because I ha...
329 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Thursday, 15 or Friday, 16 March 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
331 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 21 March 1883.
in note 14:
...which opened in Amsterdam on 1 May 1883, Anthon van Rappard was represented by Peintres en brique (no...
in translation:
Rappard wants to send a large painting to the Amsterdam exhibition. It shows 4 tile painters around a...
... at present to do large paintings for exhibitions, I wouldn’t like to work less than Rappard, say.
332 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 21 March 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard —
...riting or talking about technique in general, Rappard — although all the same I sometimes long to ...
in note 1:
For Van Rappard’s Tile painters, which would be shown at the Amsterdam International Exhibition, se...
333 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 29 March and Sunday, 1 April 1883.
in translation:
But I must discuss it with Rappard sometime, and he must first see my studies.
335 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 April 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 3:
... by William Luson Thomas, so it may be that Van Rappard sent this print. It comes from Allgemeine Il...
in note 4:
For the painting Tile painters that Van Rappard wanted to submit for the International Exhibition in ...
337 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 21 April 1883.
in translation:
Rappard was due to visit me last Monday, then his sister fell ill, he wrote, and again he couldn’t ...
339 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 2 or Thursday, 3 May 1883.
in note 6:
Van Rappard was to lend Van Gogh 25 guilders; see letter 343.
in note 7:
For Van Rappard’s earlier offer to lend Van Gogh money, see letter 289.
in translation:
...nd truly, I’m rather short. You write about Rappard — it’s so tiresome that he didn’t come w...
...n’t be able to get an immediate answer from Rappard, am already short of cash, and have appointmen...
340 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 7 May 1883.
in translation:
I’ve written to friend Rappard, but no answer yet of course — in normal circumstances he sometime...
in note 2:
...s confirmed by letter 341, ll. 144-146, in which he thanks Van Rappard for his promise by telegram.
341 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 9 May 1883.
in note 7:
...eans that Van Gogh wrote a (lost) letter to Van Rappard asking for financial help; Vincent wrote to ...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard.
But I thought, Rappard has fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, maids, servants, and I don’t know w...
...eeling towards you is more sombre as a result. I wonder, what will R. do? Which side will he choose?
in note 3:
For Van Rappard’s work on the large decoration The muse of history (1882), cf. letter 284, n. 6.
342 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 10 May 1883.
in note 14:
For Van Rappard’s Tile painters, exhibited at the International Exhibition in Amsterdam, see letter...
in translation:
...r me, at any rate a respite. I’ve also heard from friend Rappard — but nothing definite as yet.
Nonetheless, I do believe this of friend Rappard, that he does things that cost him a great deal of e...
Did you already know that Rappard’s painting has been accepted this time in Amsterdam?
...ks for your timely dispatch — I just hope that R’s ‘letter follows’ doesn’t take too long,...
343 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 20 May 1883.
in translation:
...ed to let you know in just a word or two that Rappard has been to see me and that I’ve borrowed 25...
Among the pads I’d made with the money from R. there’s one for watercolours too.
He’s the same sort of young chap as Rappard when we first met him. What he did before I knew him we...
Am longing for a letter from you. Rappard sends his regards. Are things going well for you, and for y...
344 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 21 May 1883.
in note 5:
...rcolour of this subject from this period is Van Rappard’s Ward in the Institute for the Blind in U...
in note 7:
For Van Rappard’s Tile painters, shown at the International Exhibition in Amsterdam, see letter 331...
in note 8:
A watercolour of a village churchyard by Van Rappard is not known. Cf. in this connection the drawing...
in note 9:
Van Rappard’s studio was in his parents’ house in Herenstraat in Utrecht. See exhib. cat. Amsterd...
in translation:
...�ve just got back from Utrecht after visiting Rappard, and happily I found your letter. Thanks for t...
Now, as to my visit to Rappard — I’m very glad I went. We’ll visit each other in turn more ofte...
...oo. But still. My spirits were raised because Rappard took pleasure, for instance, in several things...
And in Rappard I see again how one benefits from using good stuff, taking lots of models, &c.
R.’s studio is very good and looks pleasant.
Anyway, I’ve come back from Rappard full of plans and full of hope, precisely because with him I al...
in note 4:
Anthon van Rappard, Old woman at the spinning wheel (private collection). Ill. 330. The painting meas...
345 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 21 May 1883.
in note 5:
..., Rue Jacob, 1869. He did indeed give it to Van Rappard, one of whose descendants owns this copy wit...
in note 9:
A study by Van Rappard for which Van Gogh posed is not known. Heenk has suggested that the portrait o...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
For Van Rappard’s Old woman at the spinning wheel, see letter 344, n. 4
in note 2:
For Van Rappard’s Tile painters, see letters 331, n. 14 and 344, n. 7.
in note 3:
In the autumn of 1882 Van Rappard had done some studies at the Institute for the Blind in Utrecht. Se...
346 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Friday, 25 May 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
347 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 30 May 1883.
in note 5:
For Van Rappard’s drawings Silversmith workshop, see letter 344, n. 6.
in note 6:
For the subject, cf. Van Rappard’s watercolour Ward in the Institute for the Blind in Utrecht: lett...
in note 7:
For Van Rappard’s Tile painters, see letters 331, n. 14 and 344, n. 7.
in translation:
...atch of which I’m sending. When I talked to Rappard, he said ‘those very first drawings of yours...
It was reawakened when Rappard talked about those early days with a certain warmth. Now, however supe...
...ew weeks and have all kinds of studies of it. Rappard saw studies of it, but when he was here we did...
...tell you how much it raised my spirits to see Rappard again, I think his work is really so good, and...
...a few outgoings. If I hadn’t had the money from R., I wouldn’t have been able to undertake this.
348 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 3 June 1883.
in note 9:
Van Gogh had got the idea for this kind of frame from Van Rappard; see letter 346.
in translation:
It’s good that I went to Rappard, for his sympathy raised my spirits when I hadn’t enough self-co...
...e money to do them and now, through that from Rappard, progress has been made. The creative power ca...
...ll, definitely done after larger drawings) at Rappard’s. Now I think to myself that if The Graphic...
...ve if we persevere. Because of the money from Rappard, I already have several things such as sketchb...
352 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 11 June 1883.
in translation:
I get on with Rappard best of all.
353 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 15 June 1883.
in translation:
It’s good that I went to Rappard that time, for it was actually there that I got the idea of starti...
354 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Friday, 15 June 1883.
in note 17:
Van Rappard was taken ill in November 1882 and recovered slowly (cf. letters 290 ff.). This is why in...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 11:
For Van Rappard’s drawings in the Institute for the Blind, see letter 345, n. 3.
355 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 16 June 1883.
in translation:
...o you I received a characteristic letter from Rappard which I wanted to send to you to read because ...
...t the same day I wrote to you, precisely because R.’s letter made me enthusiastic. I’ve carried o...
... my thoughts on that subject are similar to what R. says in his letter. Like him, I arrive at the man...
Do you know what Rappard’s drawing is like? It’s as if one were reading a description of a factor...
R. has not drawn with printer’s ink, but I have here and there. But what he says is true — he wor...
in note 1:
Theo and Van Rappard had got to know each other in Paris; see letter 160, n. 6.
in note 2:
For Van Gogh’s high opinion of Van Rappard, see for example letters 343, 344 and 347.
in note 4:
Van Rappard was working on a drawing of a forge in which rollers could probably be seen. Cf. exhib. c...
356 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 22 June 1883.
in note 5:
Van Gogh had enclosed the last letter fromVan Rappard with letter 355 for Theo to read.
in note 14:
Van Gogh had borrowed 25 guilders from Van Rappard; see letter 339.
in translation:
...th a firm feeling that I’m ‘on a road’, as R. says of himself in the letter I sent you. Yes, ol...
You also read the remark in Rappard’s letter: ‘I used to do things now in this genre, now in that...
The money from R. gave me some leeway for a moment to prepare myself for the large drawings, but the ...
...resent anything now. Lantsheer is an uncle of Rappard or something like that. Rappard once wrote to ...
in note 19:
For the family relation between Van Rappard and Willem Nicolaas Lantsheer, see letter 176, n. 9.
358 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 2 July 1883.
in note 17:
... Edwin Abbey, see letter 348, n. 11. Letter 359 shows that Van Rappard sent the numbers to Van Gogh.
359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
360 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Saturday, 7 July 1883.
in translation:
...ten to you about Bock as I did recently about Rappard, that way you hear something about our acquain...
in note 1:
...him: ‘Nice that until October you have a good friend in Mr de Bock and then Rappart’ (FR b2495).
362 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 13 July 1883.
in note 12:
Van Rappard had visited Van Gogh in mid-May; Van Gogh returned the courtesy on or about 21 May: see l...
in note 7:
...bach. They belonged to the collection of Anthon van Rappard, who must have been given them by Van Gog...
in translation:
I think friend Rappard won’t be disinclined to give us a helping hand now and then.
...e a disagreeable note. To that I replied that Rappard had seen the same drawings and instead of thin...
in note 11:
A reference to the earlier loan of 25 guilders from Van Rappard: see letter 339.
366 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 24 July 1883.
in translation:
... thought there was any chance of managing it. Rappard advanced me some money, I had a little extra f...
370 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 3 August 1883.
in translation:
...l be able to give me useful tips when I carry out my plan for it. And Rappard too, when he returns.
... der Weele’s large painting in part, and at Rappard’s all the studies for the paintings he did l...
372 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 12 or Monday, 13 August 1883.
in translation:
... my full strength. As regards what I wrote to Rappard, that I didn’t think I was put into the worl...
in note 4:
Van Gogh had written to Van Rappard about this in letter 341. The phrasing here – from which it cou...
377 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 20 August 1883.
in translation:
...man brains can’t withstand everything. Take Rappard, who got brain fever and has now gone all the ...
378 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 21 August 1883.
in note 5:
Van Rappard had also spent time in Drenthe in the summer of 1882; see letter 256.
in note 6:
... North Sea to the north of the Netherlands. Van Rappard visited the island three times: in August-Se...
in translation:
...an also tell you that I’ve had a visit from Rappard and that he saw the larger drawings and spoke ...
... much like to go to Drenthe, especially after Rappard’s visit. So much so, indeed, that I’ve loo...
...pen, I’d begin by going by information from Rappard’s experiences there. Then follow his advice ...
...ink that if I were to settle somewhere there, Rappard would come even more often to that area than n...
... is right. I’m also expecting a letter from Rappard about Drenthe. In any case, I’ll write to yo...
379 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 23 and about Wednesday, 29 August 1883.
in note 9:
Van Rappard had seen Van Gogh’s recent work shortly before; see letter 378.
in translation:
...of the work. Your revised opinion agrees with Rappard’s. Van der Weele also thinks that my work ha...
384 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 10 September 1883.
in translation:
Friend Rappard is also travelling, and already has Drenthe behind him and is nearly on Terschelling. ...
in note 1:
...the was an unspoilt peat moor. For the work Van Rappard did on his journey to Drenthe and Terschelli...
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in translation:
...ences. First of all, I’ve had a letter from Rappard in West-Terschelling and he’s hard at work t...
...tter trip to the north with a visit to friend Rappard and spend some time in his lodgings on Tersche...
... And before I begin on that I’d like to pay Rappard his money back, although it may be that later ...
...ange even more. Then as an example I give you Rappard, who is now already much gentler and more huma...
390 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Wednesday, 26 September 1883.
in translation:
...for one particular specific reason, even though the deficit was inevitable if I persisted. Rappard
391 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Friday, 28 September 1883.
in translation:
...ill have no further worries ahead, and if I have no further worries I can start paying Rappard back.
395 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Friday, 12 or Saturday, 13 October 1883.
in note 5:
Anthon van Rappard made various works on the island, among them Old women in the West-Terschelling ho...
in translation:
Friend Rappard also wrote to me again from Terschelling and — now today — from Utrecht — he’s...
396 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 15 October 1883.
in translation:
...oon have a very much more jovial rapport with Rappard than before, Wisselingh would also remain loya...
400 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 28 October 1883.
in translation:
Rappard’s and my own — sometimes a frightening struggle, a struggle that’s precisely the distin...
408 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Saturday, 1 December 1883.
in translation:
...r things by the New Year, I still have to pay Rappard, and I economized on everything I could. In sh...
410 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 7 December 1883.
in translation:
...no ‘willingness’. I’ve decided to go to Rappard and tell him that I would like it too if I cou...
in note 2:
...the subsequent letters it would appear that Van Rappard was given the opportunity to devote himself ...
411 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 8 December 1883.
in translation:
...ast to the Van Gogh family. I pointed out how Rappard also has differences with his father about thi...
413 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 15 December 1883.
in translation:
... mine weren’t good enough, yet at the same time I’ve repaid the 25 guilders from friend Rappard.
I ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, 25 ,, 10 ,, ,, Rappard.
Rappard says to me, ‘a human being isn’t a lump of peat, in so far as a human being can’t bear ...
415 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 December 1883.
in translation:
...letter today, as well as a letter from friend Rappard by the same post. Let me start by thanking you...
...sympathetic, very cordial missive from friend Rappard, and your respective opinions to the effect th...
It struck me, Theo, that friend Rappard writes to me now that he observed in me how much I changed in...
...r. Now, though, your letter and a letter from Rappard arrive together today, written in a tone that ...
You, Rappard, I, if people reproach us for something — undeservedly, say — we’ll stand our grou...
...got a studio at home. It worked very well for Rappard, and Rappard writes to me, ‘I regarded it as...
...ou here and now that for my part I agree with Rappard when he tells me — ‘stay at home for a lon...
416 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 21 December 1883.
in translation:
I’ve also spent a day with Rappard, who was very cordial, and reassured me not a little concerning ...
in note 1:
...arly this morning he went to Utrecht to visit Rappard, who urged him to do so. He also deemed it nec...
in note 3:
Van Rappard lived with his parents in Heerenstraat district A, no. 1173 (now Herenstraat 23 and 23bis...
in note 4:
Anthon van Rappard, Old women in the West-Terschelling home, 1883 (The Hague, Gemeentemuseum). Ill. 3...
419 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 4 January 1884.
in translation:
...there are two looms and where it can be done. Rappard painted a study of it in Drenthe, which I foun...
in note 2:
Van Rappard’s study of a weaver in Drenthe is not known; there is a surviving drawing of the subjec...
422 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 15 January 1884.
in translation:
...k seen in order to send it into the world. Rappard did the same at a certain point, and carried i...
426 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 20 January 1884.
in note 5:
Van Gogh had been to see Van Rappard on 20 December 1883 (see letter 416, n. 1).
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 2:
Willemien, whom Van Rappard got to know in early June 1881 when he stayed in Etten (cf. letter 168).
431 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, Tuesday, 26 February 1884.
in note 6:
...rs 34 and 61). Not long after this he copied out more poems from it for Van Rappard. See letter 435.
in note 8:
Van Rappard worked on his painting Sounding the vespers (present whereabouts unknown) in the winter o...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
433 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 2 March 1884.
in note 5:
...s (F 1241 / JH 470), which once belonged to Van Rappard. Moreover, the motif of the double line of t...
in note 7:
...tober of this same year during a visit from Van Rappard. See cat. Amsterdam 1999, pp. 69-70 (n. 11)....
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 3:
...r 141, nn. 6-8 and 157, n. 17. Van Gogh and Van Rappard had walked together in this valley (see lett...
435 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 8 March 1884.
in note 5:
Van Gogh had visited Van Rappard on 20 December 1883 (see letter 416).
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 2:
Van Rappard had previously been sent the sketch Parsonage garden (F 1133 / JH 485) after Parsonage ga...
437 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 13 March 1884.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 3:
...h Parsonage garden (F 1133 / JH 485); since Van Rappard was familiar with it, we assume that it must...
438 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 15 and about Wednesday, 19 March 1884.
in translation:
As Rappard does. But you say yourself that we’re not in Rappard’s position — and with all that ...
439 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 March 1884.
in note 5:
... a painting. Cf. with regard to the subject Van Rappard’s (undated) drawing Weaver (private collec...
in note 14:
Cf. for a cemetery by Van Rappard: letter 344, n. 8.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
440 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 20 March 1884.
in note 14:
Van Rappard went to Paris in October 1879 and took lessons in the studio of Jean Léon Gérôme. It w...
in note 7:
...ge garden (F 1133 / JH 485) – this was in Van Rappard’s estate; Winter garden (F 1128 / JH 466) ...
in translation:
...ou; in the first place the ones that are with Rappard at the moment — about which I have a letter ...
I don’t write to Rappard about business matters — at least I haven’t told him that latterly I h...
441 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Friday, 21 and about Friday, 28 March 1884.
in note 5:
This work by Van Rappard, which Van Gogh also mentioned in letter 419, is not known.
in note 6:
... works referred to above, Van Gogh had sent Van Rappard the following nine drawings: Behind the hedg...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 4:
See for Van Rappard’s Old women in the West-Terschelling home: letter 416, n. 4.
442 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 24 March 1884.
in translation:
...rk now and then, I’ll also occasionally let Rappard see some of my things from now on, since he kn...
443 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 28 March 1884.
in note 5:
Van Gogh is referring to the passage about Van Rappard in letter 440, ll. 199 ff.
in translation:
The drawings for this month are still with Rappard, otherwise I would have already sent them to you. ...
I return briefly to what I wrote to you about Rappard. I don’t find it necessary to talk to him muc...
...don’t know what impression it would make on Rappard if I told him how things had been between us r...
As far as Rappard is concerned, it’s curious what absurd things he sometimes hears about his work �...
in note 1:
See for the twelve drawings by Van Gogh that Van Rappard had at this time: letter 441.
444 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, early April 1884.
in translation:
...ong the drawings that you’ll get as soon as Rappard gets here. What struck me in the scene was the...
Rappard had a couple of paintings that he saw a chance of finishing with a model that he could get, a...
in note 2:
See for the twelve drawings by Van Gogh that Van Rappard had at this time: letter 441.
446 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Monday, 12 and about Thursday, 15 May 1884.
in note 8:
See for the twelve drawings by Van Gogh that Van Rappard had at this time: letter 441, n. 6.
in translation:
I’ve heard from Rappard that he’s coming at the end of this week, which pleases me greatly. What�...
447 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 28 May 1884.
in note 5:
Anthon van Rappard, Weaver (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 335. See Van Gogh Museum Journal 1997-1...
in note 9:
...�� (Loom with weaver), which was still with Van Rappard (cf. 437, n. 1). If that was Weaver (F 1124 ...
in translation:
Just wanted to tell you that Rappard has been here for 10 days or so, and sends you his regards.
Rappard has made a small weaver here, which I thought very good, and a bust of a girl winding yarn. W...
Rappard is going to make a large painting of the fish market in Utrecht, with many figures.
...ssible for me it has also helped me to progress. R. thought so, anyway, with whom I don’t want to c...
in note 1:
See for the twelve drawings by Van Gogh that Van Rappard had at this time: letter 441.
448 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 29 May 1884.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
In May 1884 Van Rappard was awarded a silver medal at the International and Universal Exhibition in t...
in note 2:
For Van Rappard’s Weaver, see letter 447, n. 5.
in note 4:
Among the books Van Rappard sent were Charles Blanc, Les artistes de mon temps and Eugène Fromentin,...
449 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 6 June 1884.
in note 4:
... mon temps (Blanc 1876, pp. 23-24). Van Gogh had borrowed the book from Van Rappard: see letter 459.
450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
in translation:
...anced than Cabat — who’s sometimes very like R. because of his dignified simplicity, for instance...
in note 3:
...omposition, the use of colour and so forth. Van Rappard had sent this book for Van Gogh to read (let...
452 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 20 July 1884.
in note 9:
Van Rappard’s visit is discussed several times; in fact he spent about two and a half weeks in Nuen...
in translation:
Rappard sent me back the little book by Vosmaer that belongs to you — I started to read it but — ...
Rappard’s plan is to come back again in October; he’s probably in Drenthe again now.
454 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between mid-August and early September 1884.
in note 15:
These two works must have been made after Van Rappard’s visit – which lasted from about 17 to abo...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
From early July to the end of September Van Rappard and his friend L.W.R. Wenckebach went on a walkin...
458 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 21 September 1884.
in translation:
I also dropped in on Rappard that day, but he wasn’t in town.
459 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, Sunday, 21 September 1884.
in note 5:
Van Rappard stayed on Terschelling until the end of September. See letter 460.
in note 6:
...Gogh, on behalf of his parents, had invited Van Rappard to visit Nuenen; this visit took place at th...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
...ène Fromentin, Les maîtres d’autrefois. Van Rappard had sent them after his visit to Nuenen; see...
in note 4:
This painting of a fish market by Van Rappard is not known.
460 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, Sunday, 21 September 1884.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 2:
This painting of a fish market by Van Rappard is not known.
in note 3:
...e to this effect in the previous letters to Van Rappard. Van Gogh must be referring to conversations...
462 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Wednesday, 24 and about Monday, 29 September 1884.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
463 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 30 September 1884.
in translation:
... but if you ever hear of a resource, tell me. Rappard has been in Drenthe and on Terschelling again,...
464 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 2 October 1884.
in note 1:
There is also a plan that Van Rappard should come to see him and stay with us. We have even urged thi...
466 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Wednesday, 22 October 1884.
in translation:
Rappard is here at the moment and sends you his regards. He’s made a very fine study of a girl’s ...
in note 2:
... Gogh’s parents were very pleased to have Van Rappard staying with them to distract Vincent and di...
in note 3:
Virtually no works made by Van Rappard during this stay in Nuenen are known. Portrait of a girl (Rott...
467 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 25 October 1884.
in translation:
...ant you to be able to show something of mine. Rappard is still here and will be staying for another ...
...ightly more sombre rather than lighter. The spectrum of Rappard’s work has also become much lower.
But in general Rappard advises me not to do it right away, but after having painted here for another ...
Rappard has done the same in Drenthe and on Terschelling this summer, and it has helped him to make a...
The last few days R. and I have been on some long excursions, and visited people house by house — w...
Regards, from Rappard too.
in note 2:
Little is known of the work that Van Rappard did during his stay in Nuenen. See exhib. cat. Amsterdam...
468 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 2 November 1884.
in translation:
... If the financial aspect was a problem both for you and for Pa, then I could get it from Rappard.
...thers too, but they really haven’t had only patience and resignation. We must go onward. Rappard
in note 2:
... Theo about Vincent’s isolated position: ‘Rappard left Saturday. Vincent hasn’t done much the ...
469 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 14 November 1884.
in note 4:
...bottom I think he’s still depressed though. Rappard is a quiet one but very hard-working ... I thi...
474 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 10 December 1884.
in translation:
Rappard said, don’t go to Antwerp before you’re sure you’ll find something there — but how ca...
475 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 14 December 1884.
in translation:
...�ve had a series of drawings by Renouard from Rappard, ‘The legal world’, figures of lawyers —...
480 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 26 January 1885.
in translation:
...o just made The legal world, which I got from Rappard — you probably know it from Dumas’s Paris ...
494 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 18 April 1885.
in note 1:
...ntin 1902, chapter 6, pp. 235 ff.). Van Gogh had borrowed the book from Van Rappard: see letter 451.
in note 2:
..., n. 10. Van Gogh had previously written to Van Rappard about this subject: see letter 441; he refer...
496 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 28 April 1885.
in translation:
...e middle — is a famous truth. Meunier, Mellery and Rappard also often draw like that, and Allebé.
500 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 May 1885.
in note 21:
...Breton 1875, pp. 51-53. Van Gogh had copied out the whole poem for Anthon van Rappard in letter 435.
502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
in note 17:
According to the catalogue, Anthon van Rappard was represented at the World Exhibition of 1885 in Ant...
in translation:
Rappard has a painting in Antwerp that I think will be very fine, at least the sketch, which practica...
503 Anthon van Rappard to Vincent van Gogh. Utrecht, Sunday 24 May 1885.
in translation:
A.G.A. van Rappard
in note 3:
Van Gogh had sent Van Rappard an impression of the lithograph The potato eaters (F 1661 / JH 737); se...
504 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, Monday, 25 May 1885.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard
in note 1:
Van Gogh was very put out by Van Rappard’s criticism in response to the lithograph of The potato ea...
509 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 22 June 1885.
in note 7:
This insulting letter from Van Rappard is letter 503. By the remark that Van Rappard had ‘so obviou...
in translation:
... 3 months or so, I suddenly got a letter from Rappard, with whom I’ve been on good terms for years...
514 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 13 July 1885.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
...s my full sympathy — and — my dear friend Rappard — it’s because you worked so damned well t...
in note 1:
...(F 1661 / JH 737). We do not know which one Van Rappard had. Cf. Van Heugten and Pabst 1995, pp. 97-...
in note 4:
That is, during Van Rappard’s stay in Nuenen in October 1884.
516 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 15 July 1885.
in note 7:
Van Rappard suffered from fevers, for which he had gone on a cure in the summer of 1883: see letter 2...
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
...and you behave towards me just like a former certain horribly priggish Rappard at a certain academy.
in note 1:
Van Gogh is referring to Van Rappard’s reaction to letter 514, in which he wrote that he assumed th...
in note 2:
...nstliefde’, where he became friendly with Van Rappard. They stayed together in Drenthe in July-Aug...
517 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 16 July 1885.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
518 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 16 July 1885.
in translation:
...ossible but quite likely that not only he but Rappard, too, will continue to come here from time to ...
At least, I’ve known Rappard so long and so well that I’m inclined to believe that he’ll retrac...
519 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 16 July 1885.
in translation:
...m Wenckebach, a painter from Utrecht who sees Rappard every day. He makes landscapes and I’ve ofte...
...fact that to my regret I’d had trouble with Rappard, which I could hardly explain otherwise than t...
I showed Wenckebach figures that Rappard thought good in the past, and at the same time those that I�...
As for Rappard, I’ve just written to tell him that I want him to retract his letter once and for al...
I wrote to Rappard that we really do have something else to fight besides each other, and that at thi...
in note 1:
...elonged to J.L. Beijers of Utrecht. See for Van Rappard’s medal: letter 448. On the exhibition: Th...
520 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Tuesday, 21 and Friday, 24 July 1885.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
521 To Anthon van Rappard. Eindhoven, Monday, 27 July 1885.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
528 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 August 1885.
in translation:
My dear friend Rappard,
in note 1:
Van Rappard was working on Workers at the Ruimzicht brickyard (Utrecht, Centraal Museum). Ill. 331. T...
in note 2:
Van Rappard did not act on this suggestion.
529 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 19 August 1885.
in translation:
...day before yesterday that I had a letter from Rappard yesterday, and our quarrel is wholly made up, ...
Rappard had spoken to Wenckebach, and in his letter there was no longer any trace of the tone he’d ...
in note 2:
See for Van Rappard’s Workers at the Ruimzicht brickyard: letter 528, n. 1.
in note 3:
...e first time Van Gogh mentioned Meunier’s work in connection with Van Rappard’s: see letter 496.
in note 4:
...a small town to the south of Utrecht, where Van Rappard’s cousin A.C.P.G. van Rappard owned a bric...
531 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 2 September 1885.
in note 7:
See for Van Rappard’s Workers at the Ruimzicht brickyard: letters 528 and 529.
in note 8:
Van Rappard returned to Drenthe not only in 1885, but in 1886 too. See Egbert Brink, ‘Ridder in het...
in translation:
You ask me whether Rappard has ever sold anything. I know he’s flusher at present than before, that...
535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
in note 17:
...y spoken slightingly of the importance that Van Rappard and Haverman attached to ‘technique’ in ...
in translation:
...y, talks about ‘technique’. I don’t say Rappard, because he talks like that too but, fortunate...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in note 7:
...es de mon temps, which he had borrowed from Van Rappard for a while: see letter 459). What Van Gogh ...
605 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 May 1888.
in translation:
I often took walks with Rappard in the place you mention. Is the suburb and the countryside beyond th...
707 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 17 October 1888.
in translation:
... have to say about Dutch art, about Breitner, Rappard, about others, and lastly, what do they say ab...
...rge painting after all, but not of the frame. Rappard once told me a story (praising the painting an...
831 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 23 December 1889.
in note 8:
Anthon van Rappard had stayed with the Van Goghs in Etten in June and October 1881; in May 1884 he st...
in translation:
...trongly than in Holland. Do you remember that Rappard once said ‘it’s sometimes refreshing’ wh...

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170 letters found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters