1. On this agreement not to mention Theo’s relationship, see letter 339.
2. This watercolour of a hut in the dunes is not known.
3. Antoine Philippe Furnée, who was training to become a surveyor; he took his exams at the end of 1883. See Op de Coul and Tellegen 1995.
4. Hendrik Jan Furnée.
5. A simplified reproduction of Léon Augustin Lhermitte, La moisson (The harvest) (Saint Louis (USA), Washington University Gallery of Art), Ill. 217 [217], appeared in the Catalogue illustré du Salon. Publié sous la direction de F.-G. Dumas. Paris 1883, p. 189. Ill. 214 [214].
[217] [214]
6. The art dealers Arnoldus Petrus Eversteijn and Richard Howard Tripp (or Trip; cf. letter 33, n. 4) were the owners of Maison Arnold et Tripp, located at 8 rue Saint-Georges. See Almanach du commerce de Paris 1885. Mauve had dealings with them in the 1880s. See Stolwijk 1998, pp. 214-215 (n. 96). From time to time Arnold visited Jozef Israëls’s studio in The Hague. Tripp replaced Van Gogh at Goupil in London in 1875 (FR b2338).
7. Van Gogh’s use of French here may indicate that he was thinking of a work of art depicting Christ between the two thieves.
8. Possibly a quotation (cf. Matt. 13:17).
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