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029 To Theo van Gogh. London, between Monday, 4 January and Friday, 5 March 1875.
in note 10:
Rembrandt, Lamentation, 1650 (Sarasota, Florida; Bequest of John Ringling, Collection of the John and...
in translation:
... including a large Descent from the Cross by Rembrandt, 5 large figures at twilight, you can imagine...
034 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 31 May 1875.
in note 6:
Rembrandt, Philosopher in meditation (An old man in an interior with winding staircase), 1632 and Phi...
in note 5:
Rembrandt, The pilgrims at Emmaus, 1648 (Paris, Musée du Louvre) measures 68 x 65 cm. Ill. 1710.
in translation:
...sunlight’. I wish you could see the small Rembrandts there, the ‘Supper at Emmaus’, and two p...
037 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 6 July 1875.
in translation:
Rembrandt Reading the Bible (a large, old Dutch room, (in the evening, a candle on the table) in whi...
040 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 13 August 1875.
in note 18:
Regarding Rembrandt’s Reading the Bible, see letter 37, n. 4.
in translation:
...oing my best to find another engraving of ‘Rembrandt, Reading the Bible’ for you, perhaps I’ll...
042 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 2 September 1875.
in note 9:
Rembrandt, Les pélerins d’Emmaüs (The pilgrims at Emmaus), engraving from 1875 by Amadée and Eug...
in translation:
...d a few lithographs and that engraving after Rembrandt. The two lithographs after Bonington will no ...
... a large bed with blue curtains and blanket. Rembrandt’s ‘Supper at Emmaus’, of which I wrote,...
047 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 12 September 1875.
in note 9:
This probably refers to the engraving after Rembrandt’s Portrait of Jan Six which Johann Wilhelm Ka...
in note 8:
Rembrandt, Jan Six, 1654 (Amsterdam, Six Collection). Ill. 1737.
in translation:
You know the etching by Rembrandt, Burgomaster Six standing in front of the window, reading. I know t...
048 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 13 September 1875.
in note 2:
Presumably Rembrandt’s Reading the Bible; see letters 40 and 42.
in translation:
...I’ll do my best to get another copy of the Rembrandt, so perhaps it would be better to delay sendi...
053 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 30 September 1875.
in translation:
Please keep the enclosed etching after Rembrandt, along with the photos of the Corot and the Jules Br...
054 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 6 October 1875.
in note 5:
... The etching Les pélerins d’Emmaüs after Rembrandt’s Pilgrims at Emmaus is indeed by Johannes ...
in translation:
... also sent Anna several prints – including Rembrandt, Reading the Bible and The supper at Emmaus (...
074 Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, Vincent van Gogh and Theodorus van Gogh to Theo van Gogh. Etten, Tuesday, 4 April 1876.
in note 8:
On Rembrandt’s Jan Six, see letter 47, n. 8. Although the sitter was not yet a burgomaster of Amste...
in note 7:
The Louvre still has many Rembrandts; see Jacques Foucart, Peintures de Rembrandt au Louvre. Paris 19...
in translation:
... about paintings, including the paintings by Rembrandt in the Louvre and the portrait of Burgomaster...
085 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Monday, 3 or Tuesday, 4 July 1876.
in note 10:
...nvas of A Dutch lady were both attributed to Rembrandt. Ill. 1775 and ill. 1776. See White 1982, p. ...
in translation:
... which are very beautiful, and two beautiful Rembrandts (the portrait of his wife and one of a rabbi...
113 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Monday, 30 April 1877.
in translation:
..., which brought to mind so many paintings by Rembrandt and others. It is, I believe and trust, a cho...
...such men as Jules Breton, Millet and Jacque, Rembrandt, Bosboom and so many others, can also be a so...
114 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 19 May 1877.
in translation:
...alongside a canal lined with elm trees. Everything there puts one in mind of Rembrandt’s etchings.
... as that of Pa or Uncle Jan or Uncle Cor — Rembrandt, Millet, Bosboom and how many others experien...
in note 20:
In this context compare, for instance, Rembrandt’s etching View of Amsterdam, c. 1640 (B210), even ...
115 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 21 and Tuesday, 22 May 1877.
in translation:
..., who reminded me so much of that etching by Rembrandt, a woman who has been reading the Bible and h...
in note 25:
...! He has spurned time. The powerful magician Rembrandt does more: with a gesture, a glance, a ray of...
in note 23:
Rembrandt, Sleeping old woman, c. 1635-1637 (B350) (Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet). Ill. 1824.
116 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 28 May 1877.
in note 9:
Rembrandt made two etchings of the blind Tobit (B42,1 and B153,1); several copies after the latter ar...
in translation:
... sea. This morning bought from a Jew ‘Tobias’ after Rembrandt, a small engraving, for six cents.
119 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 June 1877.
in translation:
... how beautiful it was there in the twilight. Rembrandt, Michel and others have painted it, the groun...
120 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 12 June 1877.
in note 32:
...ently, a number of rooms were closed, including the one with Rembrandt’s Syndics (cf. letter 121).
in translation:
... farms which always remind me of etchings by Rembrandt. It’s a beautiful city, this, today I again...
121 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 9 July 1877.
in note 5:
Rembrandt, Syndics of the the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). Ill 1835. As emerg...
in translation:
The room in the Trippenhuis where Rembrandt’s Syndics are hanging is open again; coming from church...
123 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 27 July 1877.
in translation:
...ere is much in that work that reminds one of Rembrandt. And now a handshake in thought, and I sincer...
127 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 18 August 1877.
in note 13:
With regard to Rembrandt’s Pilgrims at Emmaus, see letter 34, n. 5.
in translation:
...hen, and to think at the same time of, for example, Rembrandt’s painting of the supper at Emmaus.
128 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 27 August 1877.
in note 3:
For Rembrandt’s Pilgrims at Emmaus, see letter 42, n. 9.
in translation:
...n much more expensive is Supper at Emmaus by Rembrandt. Enfin, you know it too and will surely make ...
129 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 4 September 1877.
in note 31:
For Rembrandt, Pilgrims at Emmaus, see letter 34, n. 5.
in translation:
...as I do? And yet – the Supper at Emmaus by Rembrandt is even more beautiful, and it could have bee...
131 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 18 September 1877.
in note 48:
Rembrandt, David in prayer, etching, 1652 (B41) (Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet). There is an impres...
in note 7:
...uding 25 drawings attributed at that time to Rembrandt; a number of those attributions have now been...
in note 6:
Rembrandt, The entombment of Christ, etching, c. 1654 (B 86) (Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet). Ill. 3...
in note 5:
Rembrandt, The flight into Egypt, at night, etching, 1651 (B 53,I) (Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet). ...
in note 3:
A reference to the two Rembrandt prints which Van Gogh mentions a couple of lines later (see notes 5 ...
in note 2:
A sizeable collection of Rembrandt etchings was preserved in the Trippenhuis. Two days later Van Gogh...
in note 35:
The drawing, attributed to Rembrandt, of Christ with Mary and Martha (c. 1650) was also called The ho...
in translation:
...uld carry out my plan to see the etchings by Rembrandt in the Trippenhuis, went there this morning a...
...and mortal fear – would have a feeling for Rembrandt’s etchings. Such as the flight into Egypt a...
... even seem to recall a beautiful portrait by Rembrandt, it would be wonderful if one could remember ...
...e who knows these things and also does them. Rembrandt knew that, for out of the rich treasure of hi...
...Jesus Christ, and also in another etching by Rembrandt, ‘David praying to God’, yes! we may than...
in note 25:
...unsten in Antwerp did not have a portrait by Rembrandt in its collection, though it did have the pan...
133 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 30 October 1877.
in translation:
...� yet the words written below the etching by Rembrandt stick in my mind, In medio noctis vim suam lu...
...es all kinds of things, from the etchings of Rembrandt to the Household edition of Dickens and Chand...
140 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 10 February 1878.
in translation:
...ook through the etchings by Dürer here in the museum again, as we did with Rembrandt’s last time.
143 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 3 April 1878.
in translation:
...earn something from the work of the likes of Rembrandt or from Weeds by Breton, or The four times of...
144 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 13 May 1878.
in translation:
...f yet. I found the house in Breestraat where Rembrandt lived. We talked about it, you know, when you...
in note 25:
Rembrandt lived from 1639 to 1658 in the house at Jodenbreestraat 6, now known as the Rembrandthuis.
145 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 22 July 1878.
in note 8:
Rembrandt, The carpenter’s house, also known as The holy family (The carpenter’s family), 1640 (P...
in translation:
...ve on hand (I’m now busy, for instance, on Rembrandt’s painting ‘The carpenter’s house’ in...
148 To Theo van Gogh. Laken, on or about Wednesday, 13 and Friday, 15 or Saturday, 16 November 1878.
in note 38:
For Rembrandt’s Reading the Bible, see letter 37, n. 4.
in note 37:
Rembrandt, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, c. 1657 (B75) (Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet). Ill. 1...
in translation:
...rge, rough etching of the same subject after Rembrandt, being the pendant of the other, Reading the ...
152 To Theo van Gogh. Wasmes, on or about Thursday, 19 June 1879.
in translation:
...ws of clouds that remind one of paintings by Rembrandt or Michel or Ruisdael. But on the occasion of...
155 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Tuesday, 22 and Thursday, 24 June 1880.
in note 17:
Similarities between the work of Rembrandt and Shakespeare, both of whom portrayed subjects ranging i...
in translation:
... (and it may well be that I still know) what Rembrandt was or what Millet was, or Jules Dupré or De...
...or example, I would be less warm now towards Rembrandt or Millet or Delacroix, or whomever or whatev...
...ible things; and then there’s something of Rembrandt in the Gospels or of the Gospels in Rembrandt...
...that the love of books is as holy as that of Rembrandt, and I even think that the two complement eac...
Someone, to give an example, will love Rembrandt, but seriously, that man will know there is a God, h...
158 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 24 September 1880.
in translation:
... a long time ago now. It’s as beautiful as Rembrandt. Shakespeare is to Charles Dickens or to V. H...
171 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 26 August 1881
in note 10:
...58-1860, vol. 1, p. 200. The reference is to Rembrandt’s Anatomy lesson of Nicolaas Tulp, 1632 (Th...
in translation:
... what Bürger or Thoré, I think, said about Rembrandt’s Anatomy lesson. That painting’s only fa...
199 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 8 or Monday, 9 January 1882.
in note 9:
...s print to ‘the women reading the Bible by Rembrandt’ (letter 249), and he writes: ‘The woman ...
211 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
in note 11:
...ially popular among artists in the circle of Rembrandt; indeed, some of their paintings were long th...
in translation:
...aes, the stable at Bethlehem. (The other was Rembrandt, Isaac blessing Jacob, with a superb Rebecca ...
239 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 22 June 1882.
in translation:
... not Blom Coster. He resembles some heads by Rembrandt, a fine forehead and a very sympathetic expre...
245 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 July 1882.
in note 4:
For this print after Rembrandt, Reading the Bible, see letter 37, n. 4. Rembrandt is known as the gre...
in note 3:
...dio noctis vim suam lux exerit’ (letter 133). We know of no Rembrandt print with this inscription.
in translation:
... night. So I’ve hung the big etching after Rembrandt above it — those two women beside the cradl...
249 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 July 1882.
in note 14:
For Rembrandt’s Reading the Bible, see letter 37, n. 4.
in translation:
...ample. And equally between the Irish emigrants by Holl and the women reading the Bible by Rembrandt.
Rembrandt and Ruisdael are sublime, for us as much as for their contemporaries, but there’s somethi...
267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
in translation:
...s Hals once. In this sheet I find something — in fact, everything — of Frans Hals or Rembrandt.
286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
in translation:
...eyerdahl done in the sentiment of Murillo or Rembrandt that he didn’t want to buy from you, ‘Oh,...
288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
in note 6:
... It is doubtful whether this is an authentic Rembrandt; the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum attributes th...
in translation:
... is caught, just like in a certain figure by Rembrandt where a little fellow sits reading, also hudd...
308 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 5 February 1883.
in translation:
...e Hille Bobbe by Frans Hals or some heads by Rembrandt. Now, as for Heyerdahl, I don’t really doub...
310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in note 4:
...itte is here mentioned in the same breath as Rembrandt, it is possible that this is a reference to t...
in translation:
...alks about a rude assault that is almost impossible to compare with anything else except Rembrandt.
312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.
in note 8:
...ns: as honourable, effective and ‘natural’ as the men in Rembrandt’s Syndics (cf. letter 121).
318 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 20 or Wednesday, 21 February 1883.
in translation:
Compare a modern window with one from Rembrandt’s time. In those days everyone seems to have had a ...
325 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 5 March 1883.
in translation:
...ter on, probably because of the influence of Rembrandt and Vermeer of Delft. I’d like something li...
359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.
in translation:
... there or is there not a distinction between Rembrandt and Van Beijeren (just as gifted technically)...
361 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 July 1883.
in translation:
...else in art, and one finds the same thing in Rembrandt’s portraits, for example — it’s more th...
401 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Wednesday, 31 October 1883.
in translation:
...an in Pa. And I see the same as in Millet in Rembrandt, in Corot, in Breton, in Brion, in short in t...
409 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 6 December 1883.
in note 6:
...iting under the pseudonym W. Bürger): ‘If Rembrandts have left Holland, it is decidedly the fault...
in translation:
... as much money for him later as they do now. Rembrandt fell too — in price — in the periwig age....
...et at the same time, to me Millet is Millet, Rembrandt Rembrandt, Israëls Israëls &c., whether it ...
430 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between Monday, 18 and Saturday, 23 February 1884.
in note 12:
...he art critic Théophile Gautier wrote about Rembrandt several times; more than once he based his co...
in note 11:
...ng under the pseudonym W. Bürger) described Rembrandt’s Jewish bride at length in Musées de la H...
in note 10:
Rembrandt, The Jewish bride, c. 1666 (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). Ill. 2119.
in translation:
...hey had no past behind them — I thought of Rembrandt’s Jewish bride — and what Thoré says abo...
434 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Wednesday, 5 and about Sunday, 9 March 1884.
in translation:
...d be the point of making comparisons between Rembrandt and Nicolaas Maes or Vermeer — nonsense, eh...
440 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 20 March 1884.
in translation:
...or both (who to my mind are to each other as Rembrandt is to Maes, say) without immersing yourself i...
445 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Wednesday, 30 April 1884.
in translation:
...lamplight in the evening, which creates very Rembrandtesque effects. Nowadays they have a sort of ha...
500 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 May 1885.
in translation:
...thing more about the UHDE painting. You know Rembrandt painted the same thing in the large painting ...
in note 26:
...allery), at that time still thought to be by Rembrandt, but now attributed to Nicolaes Maes. Ill. 21...
531 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 2 September 1885.
in translation:
... but rather proceeding from the light — as Rembrandt did — there’s something astonishingly mas...
... modern art as great — as Michelangelo and Rembrandt — the old infinite, the new infinite too �...
533 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 4 October 1885.
in translation:
Longing most of all for Rembrandt and Frans Hals, one day this week I’m going to the museum in Amst...
534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
in note 9:
See for Rembrandt’s Jewish bride and for what Thoré (under the pseudonym W. Bürger) wrote about i...
in note 3:
See for Rembrandt’s Syndics of the the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild: letter 121, n. 5.
in note 2:
Rembrandt, The night watch, 1642. Ill. 356.
in note 16:
... borrowed the description ‘magician’ for Rembrandt from Jules Michelet, L’amour (book 5, chapt...
in translation:
Bürger wrote about Rembrandt’s Jewish bride just as he wrote about Vermeer of Delft, just as he wr...
...ng about it — it’s better to think about Rembrandt, about Frans Hals, about Israëls, than about...
535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
in note 6:
...tchings that Bracquemond made after works by Rembrandt: two portraits of women in the Catalogue de v...
in note 5:
See for Rembrandt’s Jewish bride: letter 430, n. 10.
in note 4:
See for Rembrandt’s Syndics of the the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild: letter 121, n. 5. It is possible...
in note 3:
Discussing Rembrandt’s Syndics in Les maîtres d’autrefois, Fromentin referred to the rapid execu...
in translation:
...quickly. That these great masters like Hals, Rembrandt, Ruisdael — so many others — as far as po...
Above all I admired hands by Rembrandt and Hals — hands that lived, but were not finished in the se...
.... Why? Because in front of Hals, in front of Rembrandt, in front of Ruisdael and others, I thought c...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in note 9:
... which is no longer regarded as an authentic Rembrandt, came from Louis La Caze’s collection and h...
in note 18:
The term ‘harmonist’ in connection with Rembrandt may be derived from what Baudelaire had written...
in note 12:
Rembrandt, The anatomy lesson of Dr Joan Deyman, 1656 (Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum). Ill. 337. The ca...
in note 11:
Van Gogh may mean Rembrandt’s Bathsheba bathing, 1654, or Susanna bathing, 1647 (now regarded as a ...
in translation:
...ng about Chardin by De Goncourt. La Caze’s Rembrandt is really also in that sentiment of Rembrandt...
Millet, Rembrandt and, for instance, Israëls — it has sometimes rightly been said of them that the...
Rembrandt and Hals, didn’t they use black? And Velázquez??? Not just one, but twenty-seven blacks,...
539 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 7 November 1885.
in note 7:
...sées de la Hollande, in which he contrasted Rembrandt’s work with that of Bartholomeus van der He...
in note 6:
...larly his use of colour. The comparison with Rembrandt – which Van Gogh also makes – occurs repe...
in translation:
...d create their effect at a certain distance. Rembrandt persisted in this despite all the trouble he ...
...to). In that respect, Chardin is as great as Rembrandt. Israëls has something of the same, and for ...
...self — I must first see some more Chardin, Rembrandt, Old Dutch and French fellows and really thin...
543 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 20 November 1885.
in note 4:
...s of the courtly Rubens as against the human Rembrandt echo what Fromentin and Thoré had written ab...
in note 3:
...h had read this book: see letter 450. See for Rembrandt’s The pilgrims at Emmaus: letter 34, n. 5.
in translation:
...l, even badly theatrical? Look here — take Rembrandt — Michelangelo — take Michelangelo’s Pe...
544 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 26 November 1885.
in note 11:
...obably a late seventeenth-century copy after Rembrandt (Ill. 1848), and the small panel A fisher boy...
in translation:
...er boy. M. de Vos, portrait of guild patron. Rembrandt very fine, two small Rembrandts that are perh...
547 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, Monday, 14 December 1885.
in translation:
...know that he isn’t as intimate as Hals and Rembrandt, but those heads are so alive in themselves. ...
...ngs — it’s the fisher boy by Frans Hals, Rembrandt’s Saskia, a number of countenances by Ruben...
in note 20:
Copy of 1651 after Rembrandt’s Saskia van Uylenburgh. see letter 131, n. 25. At that time authoriti...
550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
in note 9:
This was probably a photo of Rembrandt’s Bust of a young woman smiling (possibly the artist´s wife...
in note 14:
Van Gogh is referring here to the Rembrandt portrait referred to above; see n. 9.
in note 10:
Rembrandt, The prodigal son in the tavern (formerly Rembrandt and Saskia), c. 1635 (Dresden, Staatlic...
in translation:
Yesterday I saw a large photo of a Rembrandt I didn’t know — which struck me amazingly — it was...
...e expression a mysterious smile like that of Rembrandt himself in his own portrait where Saskia sits...
My thoughts are full of Rembrandt and Hals at the moment, not because I see many paintings by them bu...
... so enormously struck by a whore’s head by Rembrandt, because he had caught that mysterious smil...
551 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Saturday, 2 January 1886.
in note 13:
See for this supposed work by Rembrandt letter 547, n. 20.
in translation:
...re — that hangs not far from the Saskia by Rembrandt. In a Descent from the Cross by Van Dyck, the...
552 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, between Tuesday, 12 and Saturday, 16 January 1886.
in note 5:
See for Rembrandt, The Jewish bride: letter 430, n. 10.
in note 4:
...ee for Young man with a walking stick, which is no longer regarded as a Rembrandt, letter 536, n. 9.
in translation:
...he depth of emotion that one would find in a Rembrandt or in a painting by Delacroix or in a drawing...
...pression. Compare him with, say, the head by Rembrandt in the La Caze Collection — with the male f...
...he small-minded preciseness — that neither Rembrandt, nor Millet, nor Delacroix, nor whomever you ...
615 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 May 1888.
in note 15:
See for Rembrandt’s Jan Six: letter 47, n. 8. Fromentin had also written about Six in Les maîtres ...
623 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 12 June 1888.
in note 13:
... thought for a long time to have been one of Rembrandt’s pupils. Salomon Koninck was also a follow...
in translation:
...nting, just like a Salomon Koninck, you know, Rembrandt’s pupil who made the vast flat landscapes.
625 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 June 1888.
in translation:
... So you see, what Vermeer of Delft is beside Rembrandt among painters, he is among French novelists ...
632 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Tuesday, 26 June 1888.
in note 3:
...e mentions later in the letter. The works by Rembrandt he must have had in mind would have been the ...
in note 19:
...d earlier applied the term ‘magician’ to Rembrandt. He had borrowed it from Michelet, L’amour....
in translation:
...�� as I feel it — only by Delacroix and by Rembrandt........ And then Millet has painted.... Chris...
...I still return with great love to the Dutch, Rembrandt first and foremost — Rembrandt whom I once ...
642 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in translation:
...ves, like the Greeks, like our old Dutchmen, Rembrandt, Potter, Hals, Vermeer, Ostade, Ruisdael. It ...
643 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Tuesday, 17 and Friday, 20 July 1888.
in translation:
In our northern school there’s Rembrandt — head of the school — since his influence is felt by ...
649 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
in note 8:
Rembrandt, The slaughtered ox, 1655 (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Ill. 347.
in note 7:
...This print after an oil sketch attributed to Rembrandt (now in Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum; Bre...
in note 17:
Here Van Gogh is imagining the creation of Rembrandt’s The evangelist Matthew inspired by an angel,...
in note 15:
... in letter 665 (‘the toothless laughter of Rembrandt the old lion, his head covered in a cloth, hi...
in note 14:
...biblical scenes make up an important part of Rembrandt’s oeuvre. In a footnote to this remark in t...
in translation:
Ah... Rembrandt.... all admiration for Baudelaire aside — I venture to assume, especially on the ba...
Anyway, I know, Rembrandt and the Dutch are scattered around museums and collections, and it’s not ...
...int Jesus Christs, the Good Lord and others. Rembrandt though – indeed, but he’s the only one (a...
So, Rembrandt painted angels — he makes a portrait of himself as an old man, toothless, wrinkled, w...
...ing, and that angel and that strange Christ; it’s — that he knew them, felt them there.Rembrandt
Rembrandt works with values in the same way as Delacroix with colours.
...s a gulf between the method of Delacroix and Rembrandt and that of all the rest of religious paintin...
650 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
in translation:
But there’s a woman washing herself, very Rembrandtesque, or in the style of Goya, and a very stran...
651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
in translation:
...oes without saying that for the northerners, Rembrandt first and foremost, it’s extremely desirabl...
...eat to you that neither Baudelaire nor you has a sufficiently clear idea when it comes to Rembrandt.
...hat grieves me at the Louvre is to see their Rembrandts getting spoiled and the cretins in the admini...
As difficult to say what Rembrandt’s colour is as to give a name to the Velázquez greys; we could ...
Since I had a fairly complete idea of Rembrandt. One, Delacroix, proceeds by way of colours, the oth...
To go to Rembrandt indirectly is perhaps the most direct route. Let’s talk about Frans Hals. Never ...
...poch was healthier and less sad. Now what is Rembrandt? The same thing entirely — a painter of por...
...rait painter of the Dutch Republic, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, a broad and naturalistic and health...
...ost; later — — — if, on the subject of Rembrandt, we’re dealing to some extent with magic, w...
in note 24:
...ould have been referring to the paintings by Rembrandt in the Louvre: the figure of Christ in The pi...
655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
in note 5:
Van Gogh took this passage about Rembrandt’s influence on Vermeer from E.J.T. Thoré (writing under...
in translation:
...ich they show. You’ve never been closer to Rembrandt, my dear chap, than then. In Rembrandt’s st...
656 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 6 August 1888.
in translation:
...an and others were mad, but also Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Delacroix and all the good, narrow-minded ol...
665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
in note 14:
See letter 649, n. 15, for Rembrandts Self-portrait at the easel.
in translation:
...and what laughter, the toothless laughter of Rembrandt the old lion, his head covered in a cloth, hi...
679 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 10 September 1888.
in note 5:
...ry likely that Van Gogh was thinking here of Rembrandt’s Self-portrait at the easel, which the bro...
in note 4:
See letter 47, n. 8, for Rembrandt’s Jan Six.
in translation:
...ity that we see on faces in Frans Halses and Rembrandts, as in the portrait of old Six, as in his ow...
722 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 21 November 1888.
in note 3:
...t’s fury but instead something resigned and Rembrandtesque that is indeed worthwhile’ (FR b916).
in translation:
...n never lose touch with the serious study of Rembrandt, to which the two drawings of his that I’m ...
...en’t read it they should. As for me, I think more about Rembrandt than may appear from my studies.
726 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 17 or Tuesday, 18 December 1888.
in translation:
Gauguin and I talk a lot about Delacroix, Rembrandt &c.
...dst of magic, for as Fromentin says so well, Rembrandt is above all a magician and Delacroix a man o...
... and Isaäcson, who have so sought and loved Rembrandt, in order to encourage you to pursue the rese...
... the strange and superb portrait of a man by Rembrandt at the La Caze gallery, I told Gauguin that, ...
...rait with the glove for your future, and the Rembrandt etching, Six reading by a window in a ray of ...
in note 27:
For Rembrandt’s Jan Six, reading in front of the window and Jan Six, see letter 47, nn. 8 and 9. Vi...
in note 26:
...lking stick, which is no longer considered a Rembrandt, see letter 536, n. 9. Gauguin, too, later re...
in note 25:
It was Jules Michelet who called Rembrandt a ‘magician’ (see letter 534, n. 16). Fromentin spoke ...
732 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 January 1889.
in note 14:
... lists the etching that C.L. Dake made after Rembrandt’s Anatomy lesson. The large print (64 x 84 ...
in translation:
... pleasure: he has heard about a painting by Rembrandt, The anatomy lesson. I told him that we’d g...
735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.
in note 6:
...nt had asked Theo to buy the engraving after Rembrandt’s Anatomy lesson for Rey; see letter 732, n...
736 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 17 January 1889.
in translation:
...uin and I were perhaps too quick to drop the question of Rembrandt and light which we embarked upon.
...ell, it seems to me that there’s some real Rembrandt spirit in that figure, which seems lit by the...
738 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 19 January 1889.
in note 12:
...nt had asked Theo to buy the engraving after Rembrandt’s Anatomy lesson for Dr Rey; see letter 732...
743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
in translation:
... peasants. Good — what was amazing, like a Rembrandt etching — was the old peasant woman, just t...
779 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 June 1889.
in translation:
Thus the paintings of Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer are only at home in the old Dutch house.
782 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.
in translation:
...olland they’ve felt the need to state that Rembrandt did great painting and not trompe l’oeil, t...
783 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 25 June 1889.
in note 17:
Regarding Rembrandt’s Pilgrims at Emmaus, see letter 34, n. 5.
in note 16:
Rembrandt, Abraham’s meal (Abraham receives the three angels), 1646 (present whereabouts unknown; B...
in note 15:
On The archangel Raphael (no longer attributed to Rembrandt), see letter 781, n. 4.
in translation:
I’d very much have liked to see that Rembrandt painting you spoke about in your last letter.
...ng to Mr Salles for the trouble he has gone to – later one should give him Rembrandt’s Pilgrims.
784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
in note 9:
For The archangel Raphael (no longer attributed to Rembrandt), see letter 781, n. 4.
in note 8:
For Rembrandt’s Jewish bride, see letter 430, n. 10.
in note 7:
For Rembrandt’s Pilgrims at Emmaus, see letter 34, n. 5.
in note 12:
Van Gogh knew the copy after Rembrandt’s Saskia van Uylenburgh from his time in Antwerp; see lette...
in note 11:
...man with a walking stick, which is no longer considered the work of Rembrandt, see letter 536, n. 9.
in note 10:
For Rembrandt’s Jan Six, see letter 47, n. 8.
in translation:
So what Rembrandt alone, or almost alone, has among painters, that tenderness in the gazes of human b...
797 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 22 August 1889.
in note 9:
...e portrait Young man with a walking stick (no longer attributed to Rembrandt), see letter 536, n. 9.
in note 8:
...etching by Courtry after The archangel Raphael (then attributed to Rembrandt); see letter 781, n. 4.
in translation:
.... Thank you above all for that etching after Rembrandt. It’s surprising, and yet it makes me think...
798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.
in note 3:
...e portrait Young man with a walking stick (no longer attributed to Rembrandt), see letter 536, n. 9.
in note 1:
...etching by Courtry after The archangel Raphael (then attributed to Rembrandt); see letter 781, n. 4.
in translation:
... once again for that beautiful etching after Rembrandt. I’d very much like to get to know the pain...
...t, and Giotto thus forms a sort of possible hyphen between the school of Rembrandt and the Italians.
801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
in translation:
...was first to establish relationships between Rembrandt and the south, between Potter and what he saw...
in note 23:
... travels around North Africa. He wrote about Rembrandt and Potter in Les maîtres d’autrefois; see...
804 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.
in translation:
...it’s one of the rare things that would hold up alongside even the old Dutchmen Rembrandt and Hals.
820 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 19 November 1889.
in translation:
... their Biblical interpretations. I said that Rembrandt and Delacroix had done this admirably, that I...
853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.
in note 11:
... a walking stick, now no longer considered a Rembrandt, see letter 536, n. 9. Van Gogh had previousl...
in translation:
...ranger whose bearing and gaze vaguely recall Rembrandt’s Portrait of a man in the La Caze gallery,...
865 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 1 May 1890.
in note 5:
Rembrandt, The Good Samaritan, 1633 (B90); it measures 25.7 x 20.8 cm (Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet...
in note 4:
There are two etchings by Rembrandt of the Samaritan woman: The Samaritan woman, 1658 (B70) and The S...
in note 3:
...vure is a reproduction of the fifth state of Rembrandt’s etching (B73), which was in the Dutuit Co...
in note 2:
For Rembrandt’s etching David in prayer, see letter 131, n. 48.
in note 13:
...ing of Lazarus, Van Gogh did not make any paintings after the above-mentioned etchings by Rembrandt.
in translation:
I’m perhaps going to try to work from the Rembrandts, above all I have an idea to do the man at pra...
866 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 2 May 1890.
in note 4:
...fter the painting of the same name F 677 / JH 1972. For Rembrandt’s etching, see letter 865, n. 3.
in note 3:
For these etchings by Rembrandt, see letter 865.
RM21 To Joseph Jacob Isaäcson. Auvers-sur-Oise, Sunday, 25 May 1890.
in translation:
...llings. Then, however convinced we may be by Rembrandt’s vision, yet one asks oneself: and did Rap...

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