by Paul Renouard, see letter 268, n. 6. Van Gogh already had some sheets from the series; this explains why some occur more than once in the estate.

2. For Renouard’s Banc des accusés

(The dock), which appeared in L’Illustration in November, see letter 284, n. 11.

3. For Renouard’s series The prisons of Paris

(Mazas), see letter 261, n. 8.

4. Workman sitting on a basket, cutting bread (F 1663 / JH 272

5. ‘At eternity’s gate’ (F 1662 / JH 268

6. The first two works by Herman van der Weele could be: Flock of sheep driven into a sheepfold (The Hague, Kunstmuseum) and Three cows in a landscape (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 458

and Ill. 451

. The other two etchings have not been identified.

7. Frans Alexander Lodewijk, ridder (knight) van Rappard.

8. Van Gogh suggests that Van Rappard had a venereal disease (in November 1882 Van Rappard fell seriously ill). Later he turned out to have a ‘nervous fever in the head’ (letter 310), which usually meant encephalitis, but could also be a name for other fevers affecting the brain. Van Rappard spent July and August 1883 at the health resort Soden in northern Germany to recuperate. See exhib. cat. Amsterdam 1974, pp. 79, 83.

9. George Hendrik Breitner, Council of war at the time of the Batavian Republic, 1882 (present whereabouts unknown). Ill. 2037

. See Hefting 1970, cat. no. 139.

10. The sheets in Bargue’s Exercices au fusain measure c. 61 x 47 cm on average; the illustrations themselves vary in size.

11. Théophile Schuler illustrated various books by Erckmann-Chatrian. Those mentioned in the correspondence are: L’ami Fritz (1867); Histoire d’un paysan (1868); L’histoire d’un sous-maître (1871) and Les deux frères (1873). The others were: Confidences d’un joueur de clarinette (1865); La maison forestière (1866); Le blocus (1867); L’histoire du plébiscite (1871); Une campagne en Kabylie (1873); Les années de collège (1874); Le brigadier Frédéric (1874); L’éducation d’un féodal (1876) and Maître Gaspard Fix (1876).

12. Schuler provided illustrations for the weeklies L’Illustration and Le Magasin Pittoresque (1833-1875); the latter always had a full page illustration on the cover, and contained serials, popular science articles, news and pieces about art. There were several illustrations in each issue.

13. For L’Album des Vosges, see letter 267, n. 9.

14. Most probably Van Gogh means Schuler’s Repas de paysans dans une ferme d’Alsace (Peasant meal in a farm in Alsace), in L’Illustration 30 (12 December 1857), p. 393. Ill. 2014

15. The description corresponds to the print Procedure in which a Parish Clerk is placed opposite the Rector of an adjoining village. It appeared in Punch, or The London Charivari 83 (15 July 1882), p. 23. Ill. 1367