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1. RM08 Prose passage copied from Henri Conscience’s Le conscrit (The conscript). Ramsgate or Isleworth, between about July and November 1876.

   in translation:

   ...stand near the young man. The cowshed is open; the bull looks sadly at his master, and from time to...

   ...all those whom he loves, and those of that bull, too, companion of his hard labours; he covers his...

2. 394 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Friday, 12 October 1883.

   in translation:

   ...into a brick wall. This is a wall for bulls to run into; I am a bull too, but an intelligent one, I am a bull about becoming an artist. Anyway, get out before you smash your head to pieces, that’s...

3. 397 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Tuesday, 16 October 1883.

   in translation:

   ...anyway, and I’d like to see you make a change through and through. Seize the bull by the horns. The bull called fatality, which would make us all miserable and melancholy if he were the boss. From...

4. 502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.

   in translation:

   ...the grass of the meadow is very green, the bull is russet brown, the young girl is pink, here is...

   in note 21:

   ...et la jolie du spectacle) (p. 2). A ‘girl’ and ‘the bull’ are mentioned several lines earlier.

5. 515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.

   in translation:

   ...in the Harem?’ (the painting by Benjamin-Constant). ‘Bull fights, who has ever seen those...

   in note 9:

   ...Dehodencq, Course de taureaux en Espagne (The bull fight in Spain), 1850 (Pau, Musée des Beaux-Arts...

6. 603 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.

   in translation:

   ...which really does exist. Certainly that’s taking the bull by the horns, which isn’t a bad...

7. 618 To Arnold Koning. Arles, Tuesday, 29 or Wednesday, 30 May 1888.

   in translation:

   ...bull jumped over the barrier and he jumped up against the terraces where the spectators were sitting, but the arenas here are so high that it can do no harm. Meanwhile, in a village near here a bull...

   ...enormously high, steep cliff. In its rage the bull just kept running and — plunged to its death...

8. 629 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 21 June 1888.

   in translation:

   ...s a lad with a small face, the neck of a bull, the eye of a tiger, and I started doing one portrait...

9. 633 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Wednesday, 27 June 1888.

   in translation:

   ...I feel good being an ox …. and I admire the bull, the eagle, the man, with a veneration — which...

   in note 6:

   ...He ought to have said lion instead of bull, the ox having already been mentioned for Saint...

10. 643 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Tuesday, 17 and Friday, 20 July 1888.

    in note 3:

    ...animals to be found in Potter’s oeuvre, at most a bull mounting a cow or a quadruped urinating.

11. 653 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.

    in translation:

    ...and green, a small head on a neck like a bull’s. The background in this one is a harsh green door...

12. 673 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 3 September 1888.

    in date note:

    ...Since he also says that he and Boch saw a bull fight ‘yesterday’ – these were always on a...

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