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307 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 4 February 1883.
in note 5:
... to you I asked in passing about the work of LHERMITTE’ (letter 308), shows that a letter or part ...
in note 4:
...ery in London, where nine drawings by Léon Augustin Lhermitte were shown. We quote the whole passage...
in translation:
... good information several times in the past (about Daumier’s painted work, for example). Lhermitte
308 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 5 February 1883.
in note 5:
...er 307, n. 4. The charcoal drawing by Léon Augustin Lhermitte is no. 114: Une procession à Mont-Sai...
in note 4:
...heo for information about the work of Léon Augustin Lhermitte. This could mean that a letter or part...
in translation:
...rawings or etchings by Legros, which are also very vigorous and broad, for example the pew.Lhermitte
309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in translation:
...ng their prayers on the cliffs of Brittany, a paupers’ pew and an old market and so on. Lhermitte
in note 23:
...308, n. 5. The two other drawings are Léon Augustin Lhermitte’s Pèlerinage à la Vierge de Kersai...
310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in note 4:
...ems that Theo had written saying that Léon Augustin Lhermitte had made a drawing of Judas, but no su...
in note 3:
For this article on Lhermitte, see letter 307, n. 4, which speaks of ‘a rude, massive, and primitiv...
in translation:
What you write about Lhermitte is entirely in accord with what it said in a review of an exhibition o...
...riot, for example – in which one finds a degree of passion in words that’s white-hot. Lhermitte
330 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 18 March 1883.
in note 8:
Vincent had asked about Lhermitte in letter 308.
in translation:
...direction once found. Not without continuous labour, of course, but I face that now anyway.Lhermitte
331 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 21 March 1883.
in note 7:
Van Gogh’s interest in Lhermitte as a Black and White artist was prompted by what he had read about...
in translation:
How much I would like to see something by Lhermitte.
333 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 29 March and Sunday, 1 April 1883.
in note 1:
...referring to the wood engraving after Léon Augustin Lhermitte’s painting L’aïeule (dit à tort:...
in translation:
... There must undoubtedly be many similarities between his work and that of Millet or Breton.Lhermitte
...k of it, precisely because I’d heard about Lhermitte, due to one thing and another, I was on the l...
...ld match up to certain charcoal drawings — Lhermitte is an ideal — and reaching that standpoint ...
...although matching those charcoal drawings by Lhermitte, for instance, is a very long way off. You wi...
Lhermitte’s secret, it seems to me, is none other than that he knows the figure in general — na...
336 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 April 1883.
in translation:
...elle &c., even though compared with Millet and others it isn’t entirely correct and true.Lhermitte
343 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 20 May 1883.
in note 5:
A simplified reproduction of Léon Augustin Lhermitte, La moisson (The harvest) (Saint Louis (USA), W...
in translation:
Saw The harvest by Lhermitte in the Salon illustrated catalogue. It looks beautiful; how it captures ...
345 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 21 May 1883.
in note 10:
...t are related to those in the work of Léon Augustin Lhermitte and Jules Bastien-Lepage (such as farm...
in translation:
... blind men. I’ll also try it out with a finer pencil — — adieu — with a handshake. Lhermitte
358 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 2 July 1883.
in translation:
...n harmony — though distantly — with what Lhermitte, for instance, is seeking. Watercolour isn’...
434 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Wednesday, 5 and about Sunday, 9 March 1884.
in translation:
... — better observed than what you say about Lhermitte, for whom you can safely keep your sympathy, ...
436 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 10 March 1884.
in translation:
To what you say about not liking Lhermitte so much any more, I say that the fault lies with you. I th...
440 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 20 March 1884.
in translation:
...�s a comparison of the schools of Millet and Lhermitte. I found what you said about Millet better an...
467 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 25 October 1884.
in note 7:
...roduction of a charcoal drawing after Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Le cabaret, dit à tort Intérieur de...
in translation:
I’ve just seen a reproduction of a Lhermitte — The inn — two workmen and a woman, do you know i...
484 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 2 March 1885.
in note 5:
Léon Augustin Lhermitte’s Les bûcherons (The woodcutters), engraved by Clément Edouard Bellenger...
in note 4:
See for The harvest by Lhermitte: letter 343, n. 5.
in note 3:
See for Lhermitte, The inn: see letter 467, n. 7.
in note 2:
See for Lhermitte, The grandmother: letter 333, n. 1.
in note 1:
Probably a reproduction of Léon Augustin Lhermitte’s La moisson (The harvest), 1874 (Carcassonne, ...
in translation:
... Thanks, too, for the splendid woodcut after Lhermitte — one of the few things by him that I know,...
...ertainly not seen anything in the last few years as fine as those woodcutters by Lhermitte.Lhermitte
485 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Monday, 9 March and about Monday, 23 March 1885.
in note 4:
See for Léon Augustin Lhermitte, The woodcutters: letter 484, n. 5.
in translation:
... when I saw those magnificent woodcutters by Lhermitte recently, then I know very well that a great ...
496 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 28 April 1885.
in note 4:
...ndicates that Theo sent the prints by Léon Augustin Lhermitte from the series ‘Les mois rustiques�...
in translation:
The Lhermittes are superb. I adore them.
Thanks again for the Lhermittes and other illustrated magazines. I was disappointed in Le Chat Noir,...
500 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 May 1885.
in note 7:
See for Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Hirondelles ou le jardinage: letter 496, n. 4.
in translation:
The woman with the spade by Lhermitte, how it lives and how real it is: as if done by a peasant who c...
...also really magnificent. And the peasants by Lhermitte, Millet, are so fine precisely because of the...
502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
in note 13:
Among other things Mantz writes of Lhermitte: ‘Despite the differences, easily visible, which separ...
in translation:
...ike to read it and will send it back within a fortnight or so. Is Lhermitte’s month of May in yet?
...nk, here is the harmony of 3 tones’, when he talks about the same question in regard to Lhermitte.
in note 22:
Mantz was talking about Alfred Roll in this context, not Lhermitte.
506 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 2 June 1885.
in note 15:
Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Le mois de Marie à Chartèves, planned for the month of May in the series ...
in translation:
Is Lhermitte’s month of May out already? In accordance with the postscript to your letter, I called...
...at’s needed. Look out particularly for the Lhermittes when they come out. How fine they are. I spo...
508 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 15 June 1885.
in note 5:
See for Lhermitte’s The lovers (‘Idyll’): letter 502, n. 19.
in translation:
Wasn’t there a contribution by Lhermitte in May?
510 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 28 June 1885.
in note 17:
...nt had asked Theo to keep an eye out for the Lhermitte prints appearing every month in Le Monde Illu...
in translation:
... estimate of when you’re coming? And aren’t there any new Lhermittes? Regards, with a handshake.
512 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 6 July 1885.
in translation:
... hear me having any pessimistic doubts about Lhermitte, do you? So I’m not someone who always doub...
I’m so fond of Lhermitte — Raffaëlli — because it’s thought out through and through, sensibl...
514 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 13 July 1885.
in translation:
...completely and utterly opposite to Millet or Lhermitte — and sooner run parallel to Cabanel — wh...
515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
in translation:
... well beside a Jacque — nor a figure by Beyle or Lhermitte beside a Schelfhout or Koekkoek.
... nothing. But a Raffaëlli — is someone, a Lhermitte is someone, and in many paintings by virtuall...
Not so the figures of a Millet, a Lhermitte, a Régamey, a Lhermitte, a Daumier. They’re also well ...
... in the snow. There it is — Millet did it, Lhermitte, and in general the peasant painters of this ...
...natomy. But when Israëls or when Daumier or Lhermitte, say, draw a figure, one will feel th...
...o broad. Tell him that in my view Millet and Lhermitte are consequently the true painters, because t...
...the present (the great, for instance Millet, Lhermitte, Breton, Herkomer; the lesser, for instance R...
526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
in translation:
... Jacque, and above all not forgetting Jules Dupré. Lhermitte is a new one of that calibre.Lhermitte
528 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 August 1885.
in note 7:
... Van Gogh had acquired four prints by Léon Augustin Lhermitte: Les bûcherons (letter 484), Hirondel...
in translation:
...iterally nothing new as regards woodcuts, apart from — 4 large compositions by Lhermitte.Lhermitte
531 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 2 September 1885.
in note 1:
..., it is safe to assume that by the ‘new’ Lhermittes he meant the prints for the months of July a...
in translation:
...francs enclosed. I also received the two new Lhermittes today. He’s a master of the figure. He’s...
... whom I know so very little about, I find in Lhermitte and in Millet. But with this distinction, tha...
...ut this evening I’m much too occupied with Lhermitte’s drawings to go on writing any more about ...
When I think about Millet or about Lhermitte — then — I find modern art as great — as Michelang...
532 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Friday, 25 and about Tuesday, 29 September 1885.
in note 5:
See for the new instalment in Lhermitte’s print series ‘Les mois rustiques’ letter 533, n. 1.
in translation:
Am also curious about the Lhermitte, whether there’s been one this month.
533 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 4 October 1885.
in note 1:
Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Les vendanges (The grape harvest), engraved by Clément Edouard Bellenger, ...
in translation:
...etter and the 150 francs enclosed. I’ve also received the September Lhermitte — it’s splendid.
...ame time symbolic. In the work of Millet, of Lhermitte, all reality is also symbolic at the same tim...
538 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 3 or Wednesday, 4 November 1885.
in note 13:
Theo sent Léon Augustin Lhermitte’s prints in the series ‘Les mois rustiques’ which appeared i...
in translation:
Hasn’t there been a Lhermitte this month?
545 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Saturday, 28 November 1885.
in note 8:
...g for Vincent: there is an example of Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Le semeur (The sower), engraved by Cl...
in note 7:
Léon Augustin Lhermitte, La récolte des pommes de terre (The potato harvest), engraved by Clément ...
in translation:
..., I assure you. I’ve also found OCTOBER by Lhermitte, women in a potato field in the evening, magn...
629 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 21 June 1888.
in note 6:
... his early years as an artist, and to Léon Augustin Lhermitte’s drawing of the same title, Le seme...
in translation:
...st afraid of them. And yet, after Millet and Lhermitte what remains to be done is... the sower, with...
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in translation:
...ence of the peasant, and now, yes, there’s Lhermitte, it’s true there are one or two more, Meuni...
823 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in translation:
...understood Millet as a man – now some like Lhermitte and Roll have grasped him – things wouldn�...

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