2. Scheffer made a number of paintings in which Margaret (from Goethe's Faust) figures (see Ewals 1987, p. 517). In letter 28 Van Gogh had already mentioned Margaret at the fountain

, after which the engraving Marguerite à la fontaine, made by Léopold Flameng, was published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts of 1 March 1864 (vol. 16, facing p. 196). (Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum). Ill. 1739

Other known engravings in which Margaret features are Marguerite (Margaret) by Hermann Eichens of 1862 and Marguerite à l’église (Margaret at church) by Alphonse François of 1864 (both in Bordeaux, Musée Goupil); for the reproductions after Margaret at the spinning wheel, Margaret at church, Margaret leaving church, Margaret on the sabbath, Faust and Margaret in the garden and Margaret at the fountain, see Ewals 1987, pp. 258, 262, 283, 296, 308, 339.

3. From the poem ‘Jonge roeping’ (Youthful vocation) by P.A. de Génestet, included in the volume Laatste der eerste (Last of the first). The opening lines read thus:

Not to dream, not to sigh,

Not to moan, according to my lights

Not to fear, not to fly

From life’s unallayed delights.

Niet te droomen, niet te zuchten,

Niet te klagen, naar ik meen

Niet te schuwen noch te vluchten

’s Levens reine lieflijkheên.

See De Génestet 1869, vol. 2, pp. 18-19.