1. The public garden (F 472 / JH 1598 [2728]).
[2728]
2. In letter 709 Van Gogh said that he did not intend to paint for at least three days.
3. Georges Seurat, Models, 1886-1888 (Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation). Ill. 2234 [2234]. See letter 669, n. 5, for La Grande Jatte (Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte) [425]. Van Gogh probably saw these works in Seurat’s studio; see letter 589, n. 19.
[2234] [425]
4. Van Gogh wrote in letter 700 that his decoration would have to be worth 10,000 francs to get back the money he had spent. He mentioned the same sum in letter 607 as the amount he wanted to earn, apparently as compensation for the money he had cost Theo.
5. See letter 702, n. 3, for Edmond de Goncourt’s Les frères Zemganno.
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