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031 To Theo van Gogh. London, Tuesday, 6 April 1875.
in translation:
...and whether you know of anything else. That Victor Hugo piece is beautiful. Adieu, give my regards t...
042 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 2 September 1875.
in note 6:
...r, Musée Fabre). The depiction is based on Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris, book 8, chapter 4 ‘L...
143 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 3 April 1878.
in note 5:
Both phrases occur in Victor Hugo, Les contemplations, in book 3, chapter 30 ‘Magnitudo parvi’, a...
155 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Tuesday, 22 and Thursday, 24 June 1880.
in note 9:
...ogh derived his knowledge of Aeschylus from Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare. Paris 1864. Other plac...
in translation:
...nd then last winter, Shakespeare and a little V. Hugo and Dickens and Beecher Stowe, and then recent...
...to in Michelet, and something of Delacroix in V. Hugo, and in Beecher Stowe there’s something of A...
158 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 24 September 1880.
in note 6:
Regarding Hugo’s William Shakespeare, see letter 155, n. 9.
in note 5:
Victor Hugo, Le dernier jour d’un condamné (1829). This novel, the story of the last day in the li...
in note 10:
...ton’s studio and the following remark made by Hugo in William Shakespeare concerning the house he l...
in translation:
I studied some of Hugo’s works a little this past winter. Namely Le dernier jour d’un condamné a...
...’ve seen drawings of Gothic architecture by V. Hugo. Well, without having Meryon’s powerful and ...
in note 23:
...de by Fortuné Louis Méaulle after drawings by Hugo. They were reproduced in Philippe Burty’s arti...
186 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 18 November 1881.
in translation:
... Pa sees me with a French book by Michelet or V. Hugo in my hand, he thinks of arsonists and murdere...
267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
in translation:
...mell of the days of Gavarni and of Balzac and V. Hugo in these grubby woodcuts — something of the ...
280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
in note 3:
Dorn links this view to Victor Hugo’s ideas about genius in William Shakespeare. See Hugo 1864, pp....
286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
in note 9:
Victor Hugo’s broadly conceived historical novel Quatre-vingt-treize (1874) is set in the period af...
in translation:
...r Zola’s book I read Quatre vingt treize by V. Hugo at long last. That’s entirely different terr...
288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
in note 8:
These lines most probably go back to Victor Hugo’s poem La légende des siècles (1859), in which t...
in note 15:
... in L’art d’être grand-père (1877) by Victor Hugo. See Hugo 1972, vol. 2, p. 559. Van Gogh use...
in translation:
Take the Victor Hugo by Bonnat — beautiful, really beautiful — but even more beautiful in my view...
...ing as when one has just finished a book by Victor Hugo, for example. For my part I can’t understa...
in note 25:
..., about which Van Gogh had recently read in Victor Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize; see letter 286, n. ...
292 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 10 December 1882.
in note 7:
...was added as an afterthought, may come from Victor Hugo’s William Shakespeare: ‘Prometheus was R...
in note 4:
A reference to the title of the last chapter of Hugo’s historical novel Quatre-vingt-treize (1874),...
in note 3:
Victor Hugo’s Histoire d’un crime (1877-1878) recounts the events during the coup of December 185...
in translation:
... I’ve read it in Histoire d’un crime by Victor Hugo. He’s a noble character — I wish I knew ...
Yet the sun rises, says V. Hugo.
293 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 11 December 1882.
in note 8:
...nd ‘grandeur morale’ occur literally in Victor Hugo’s Les misérables (book 1, chapter 4), whe...
294 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Wednesday, 13 and about Monday, 18 December 1882.
in note 6:
...orcière, where he likewise gives the author as Hugo: see letter 300, n. 10. Cf. also Merlhès 1989, ...
in translation:
...ctly who or what will be there. I like what Victor Hugo said: religions pass, but God remains. And G...
300 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 10 January 1883.
in note 2:
Very likely borrowed from Victor Hugo’s novel Quatre-vingt treize, which Van Gogh had recently read...
in note 10:
... ‘phare à éclipse’ has not been traced in Hugo’s oeuvre, but a ‘phare à feux tournants’ ...
...g, ‘Les dieux passent, et non Dieu’, to Victor Hugo (he gave the quotation as ‘Les religions p...
in translation:
... we must follow our impulses in such cases? Victor Hugo says, ‘Over and above reason there is cons...
...main and the swings will only get stronger. Victor Hugo speaks of ‘like a lighthouse whose beam fl...
304 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 25 January 1883.
in note 79:
...g the reign of terror. This illustration to Victor Hugo’s Ninety-three, in The Graphic 9 (25 April...
in note 75:
For the novel Quatre-vingt-treize by Victor Hugo, which Van Gogh says in November he has read and cal...
in translation:
...illustrated in such a way — how fortunate that it’s that book, so fully worthy of it.Victor Hugo
One also damages, for example, the novels, like Hugo’s 93.
305 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 26 or Saturday, 27 January 1883.
in note 2:
... June 1874), p. 565. Ill. 1214 (t*119). It is an illustration to Quatre-vingt-treize by Victor Hugo.
309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in translation:
I saw a figure by Paterson in The Graphic, an illustration for 93 by Hugo, called Dolorosa.
in note 27:
...writes) by Marquis de Lantenac, as described in Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize (book 4, chapter 3). For...
in note 24:
For this expression from Victor Hugo, Les contemplations, see letter 143, n. 5.
310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in translation:
... Judas before the scribes by him. I believe Victor Hugo could describe that in detail so that one sa...
316 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 15 February 1883.
in translation:
And Victor Hugo equally. Victor Hugo
318 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 20 or Wednesday, 21 February 1883.
in note 8:
The passage in Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris reads (book 4, chapter 3): ‘And all that came from Qua...
in note 7:
In Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) Archdeacon Claude Frollo falls in love with Esmerelda. ...
in note 11:
Words spoken by Quasimodo in Victor Hugo’s La Esmeralda, the libretto of an opera based on his grea...
in translation:
... the alert. Just last week I read Notre-Dame by Hugo, which I had read before over 10 years ago. Do y...
...n I would, and like me you would feel that what Hugo says is true. For those who know that Quasimodo ...
333 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 29 March and Sunday, 1 April 1883.
in note 12:
Victor Hugo’s novel Les misérables (1862) tells the story of the ex-prisoner Jean Valjean against ...
in translation:
...me to write. I’m reading Les misérables by V. Hugo. A book of which I have old memories, but at t...
It was just like a page in Hugo — and something that would certainly have struck you and that you c...
336 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 April 1883.
in note 3:
The character Combeferre sings this song in Victor Hugo’s Les misérables, part 3, book 4, chapter ...
in translation:
... Fantine — but all the same this character by Hugo — like all his characters for that matter — ...
337 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 21 April 1883.
in note 7:
Borrowed from Victor Hugo, Les misérables, vol. 1, book 1, chapter 4: ‘He whom man kills, God brin...
338 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 30 April 1883.
in note 14:
For Victor Hugo’s novel Les misérables, see letter 333, n. 12.
in translation:
...’ve finished Les misérables. I know that Victor Hugo analyzes in a different way from Balzac and ...
345 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 21 May 1883.
in translation:
...ery good is that one sees books in your studio, Hugo, Zola, Dickens – figure painter books. Will se...
...ne doesn’t know writers like Dickens, Balzac, Hugo, Zola until one has more or less full knowledge ...
346 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Friday, 25 May 1883.
in note 5:
For Victor Hugo’s Les misérables, see letter 333, n. 12.
in note 12:
For Victor Hugo’s novel Quatre-vingt-treize, which is set shortly after the French Revolution, see ...
in translation:
...han my grandfather even. Quatre-vingt-treize by Hugo was the one that was illustrated by all The Grap...
353 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 15 June 1883.
in note 7:
This phrasing is derived from a quotation from Hugo’s Les misérables that Van Gogh cited in letter...
358 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 2 July 1883.
in note 3:
Victor Hugo wrote in William Shakespeare: ‘He was exiled. He died in exile. Then the orator Lycurgu...
in translation:
What V. Hugo says about Aeschylus: ‘They killed the man and then they say: “let us put up a bronz...
359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.
in note 1:
...rues et des bois’ in Mes haines: ‘Given Victor Hugo and subjects pertaining to idylls and eclogu...
in translation:
...to Zola’s Mes haines Zola’s own words about Hugo, ‘I should like to demonstrate that, given suc...
379 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 23 and about Wednesday, 29 August 1883.
in note 6:
The passage goes back to Victor Hugo, Les misérables, book 1, chapter 13, which describes how Bienve...
in translation:
...to apply to her what the priest Bienvenu in Victor Hugo’s Misérables used to say to ugly, even po...
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in translation:
...of people who genuinely seek good, I think what Hugo says is true, ‘there is the BLACK ray and ther...
in note 22:
Taken from Victor Hugo, Quatre-vingt-treize, part 3, book 2, chapter 7: ‘The friendship was between...
397 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Tuesday, 16 October 1883.
in note 4:
Taken from Victor Hugo, Les misérables, part 4, book 1, chapter 4: ‘A revolution is a return from ...
in note 13:
The expression derives from Victor Hugo’s poem La légende des siècles (1859), (see letter 288, n....
400 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 28 October 1883.
in note 2:
See for this term, taken from Victor Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize: letter 388, n. 22.
in note 20:
This phrase is taken from Hugo’s Les misérables: see letter 397, n. 4.
401 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Wednesday, 31 October 1883.
in note 16:
...ck ray), later in the sentence, derived from Victor Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize: letter 388, n. 22.
403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
in note 5:
See for this term, derived from Victor Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize: letter 388, n. 22.
in translation:
...Israëls, Herkomer — not to mention Michelet, Hugo, Zola, Balzac, a host more from the more distant...
415 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 December 1883.
in note 1:
... rayon noir’ (the black ray), derived from Victor Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize: letter 388, n. 22.
439 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 March 1884.
in note 8:
...means that great minds do not imitate, from Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare. See Hugo 1864, p. 383,...
450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
in note 14:
Dorn associates this notion with Victor Hugo’s ideas about genius in his book William Shakespeare (...
461 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Monday, 22 and about Sunday, 28 September 1884.
in note 9:
Victor Hugo wrote several novels in which the Revolution featured, among them Les misérables (1862),...
in note 10:
This line is taken from Victor Hugo, Les misérables, book 1, chapter 10. See Hugo 1951, p. 67. It is...
in translation:
Quinet now, say, or Michelet or V. Hugo (later), was the difference between them and their opponents ...
476 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 December 1884.
in note 5:
Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831).
in translation:
...ill always be Leys and Thijs Maris, Thijs Maris — and Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame — Notre-Dame.
477 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 30 December 1884.
in note 5:
...emark could be based on Van Gogh’s reading of Hugo’s William Shakespeare. Hugo had said in this c...
494 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 18 April 1885.
in note 8:
...mong other things, Don Quixote and works by Victor Hugo. He worked for the periodical Le Chat Noir. ...
502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
in note 19:
...e devoted in their entirety to the death of Victor Hugo. Van Gogh went on to ask in vain for this un...
507 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 9 June 1885.
in note 2:
Victor Hugo died on 22 May 1885; on 31 May his body was placed under the Arc de Triomphe and on 1 Jun...
in translation:
...flowers that grow there in that churchyard. Victor Hugo, whom they’ve also just buried, said Relig...
527 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 17 August 1885.
in note 3:
Van Gogh derived this expression from Hugo’s William Shakespeare in a passage on Greek drama: ‘To...
547 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, Monday, 14 December 1885.
in translation:
...to you about — a type of head in the style of V. Hugo’s — then I also have a study of a woman.
641 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in note 1:
... letter is absolutely remarkable, it would make Hugo go wild with excitement.’ (Ce passage de la le...
642 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in note 11:
In Hugo’s anthology L’année terrible (1872), which deals with the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-18...
in translation:
...a damned thing, and still. I’ve just read Victor Hugo’s L’année terrible. There’s hope ther...
691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
in translation:
...se beam flashes on and off, and so now, of course, we’re passing through that darkness.Victor Hugo
692 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, Monday, 1 October 1888.
in note 3:
At the beginning of Victor Hugo’s Les misérables the central character, Jean Valjean, has just bee...
752 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 24 March 1889.
in note 6:
...the 1871 Commune, sentenced to hard labour. Victor Hugo lived in exile for 20 years on Jersey and Gu...
in translation:
...e madhouse – why not? Didn’t Rochefort with Hugo, Quinet and others give an eternal example by su...
784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
in note 13:
... 17 volumes published by Pagnerre in Paris; Victor Hugo, the translator’s father, wrote the forewo...
798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.
in note 19:
Regarding Brion’s illustrations to Victor Hugo’s Les misérables, see letter 333, n. 14.
830 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 22 December 1889.
in translation:
... mind, that it was finer than the drawings of V. Hugo, which he likes a great deal etc. I suggested ...
834 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Friday, 3 January 1890.
in translation:
In your previous letter you talk of Hugo’s drawings – I’ve just seen a volume of Michelet’s (...
856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
in note 9:
This quotation, possibly from Victor Hugo, has not been traced.

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1 essay item found

Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
...ng with Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s cabin), Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare and Aeschylus.

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Chronology
in 1883:
...eads Carlyle’s Sartor resartus (274, 325) and Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris and Les misérables (318...
in 1882:
...�res, Daudet’s Les rois en exil and Le Nabab, Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize and Zola’s Pot-bouille...
in 1880:
Winter #Vincent reads Hugo’s Le dernier jour d’un condamné and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and K...

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56 letters found

1 essay item found

1 other item found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters