1. For Gauguin’s Among the mangoes , see letter 612, n. 1.

2. Sunflowers in a vase (F 456 / JH 1561 ). See Dorn 1999, pp. 49; Van Tilborgh and Hendriks 2001, p. 22, on the number of flowers.

3. For this see letter 678, n. 10.

4. It was some time before Van Gogh put this plan into effect: he painted the whole Roulin family, including the baby, in December 1888 (cf. letter 723).

5. General Boulanger had called his daughter, born on 12 December 1868, Marcelle.

6. This grandmother was Rosalie Pelicot-Décès, Augustine Roulin’s mother. She lived in Lambesc, a small village some 55 km to the east of Arles (see letter 748, n. 1). Joseph Roulin’s mother, Marguerite Cathérine Roulin-Aubran, had died in 1865 (Mairie de Lambesc).

7. See for Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon (1872) andTartarin sur les Alpes (1885): letter 583, n. 9.