1. Van Gogh initially sent larger prints, since he later wrote: ‘Here are a couple of smaller photos of the studies of which you already have the larger ones’ (letter 467). These larger photographs are not known.
Six versions of ‘cartes de visite’ that Van Gogh had taken at P.H. van Bemmel’s photographic studio in Nieuwstraat in Eindhoven have survived in the estate. (FR b4761-b4766). The cardboard mounts to which the photographs are attached measure 10.5 x 6.2 cm. See exhib. cat. Vienna 1996, pp. 175-177, cat. nos. 58-63.
From the continuation of the letter (l. 96) we can deduce that Van Gogh sent photographs of a woman spinning and a sower. The paintings themselves are not known, we only know of them thanks to these two small photographs. Ill. 2126 [2126] and Ill. 2127 [2127].
[2126] [2127]
2. Van Gogh sent the two photographs of weavers with letter 465.
3. Van Gogh sent two photographs from this set of six with letter 466.
a. Read: ‘Zonder clair obscur zijn’ (without being chiaroscuro).
b. Means: ‘bovendien’ (moreover).
4. See for Frank Holl, Ordered off [949]: letter 460, n. 7.
[949]
5. See for Gordon Thompson, The Good Shepherd [1376]: letter 460, n 8.
[1376]
6. See for Daumier’s The Revolution of 1848. A family on the barricades: letter 305, n. 6.
7. See for Guizot: letter 461, n. 6.
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