1. It is possible that Van Gogh wrote ‘vind’ (think) instead of ‘vond’ (thought).

2. Probably Old man in his Sunday best with an eye patch (F 1003 / JH 285 ); cf. letter 354, n. 10. But it is also possible that Van Gogh is referring to Head of a man with a pipe and bandaged eye (F 1004 / JH 289 ), see letter 297, n. 3.

3. Frans Hals, Malle Babbe, c. 1633-1635 (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie). Ill. 151 . The title Hille Bobbe was also current at the time: E.J.T. Thoré (writing under the pseudonym W. Bürger) also used it, based on an error in a sale catalogue of 1867. See exhib. cat. Washington 1989, pp. 236-241, cat. no. 37, and W. Bürger, ‘Frans Hals’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts 24 (1868), p. 443.

4. The previous letter of 3 February contains no request to Theo for information about the work of Léon Augustin Lhermitte. This could mean that a letter or part of a letter has been lost. It is also conceivable that Van Gogh made a mistake and was referring to the passage about Lhermitte in his latest letter to Van Rappard (letter 307), although there too he again says explicitly that he has written to Theo about Lhermitte.

5. A reference to the review of the Black and White exhibition in The Graphic: see letter 307, n. 4. The charcoal drawing by Léon Augustin Lhermitte is no. 114: Une procession à Mont-Saint-Père (A procession at Mont-Saint-Père) (present whereabouts unknown). Ill. 221 . See Le Pelley Fonteny 1991, pp. 440-441, cat. no. 668.

6. Alphonse Legros, Le lutrin (Les chantres espagnols), (The lectern (Spanish precentors)) in Eaux-fortes modernes, publiées par la Société des Aquafortistes 3 (January 1865), no. 141. Below the etching: ‘Par Cadart & Laquet’ (Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet). Ill. 1041 . Cf. Bailly-Herzberg 1972, vol. 1, pp. 139-140, nos. 141, 161. The only work by Legros discussed in the review is Beggar and worshippers at a church-porch of Bruges.

a. Means: ‘brassen, zich geregeld aan ongebonden vermaken overgeven’ (guzzle, to indulge in dissolute pleasures constantly).

7. Prinsessegracht was known as ‘Boschkant’ because it was opposite Haagse Bos.