a. Read: ‘Boch’.

1. This was The Alpilles with a hut (F 622 / JH 1766 ), see letter 798, n. 8. For Rod’s Le sens de la vie, see letter 783, n. 5.

2. Eugène Boch, The Agrappe mine in Frameries, Borinage (The Crachet-Pecry mine) (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 595 .

3. For Ernest Quost, Easter flowers , which was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes français, see letter 866, n. 10.

4. Georges Jeannin was represented at the Salon by the paintings The centenarian and Camellias and tulips. See exhib. cat Paris 1890-1, p. 100, nos. 1275-1276.

5. Quost lived at 74 rue de Rochechouart in Montmartre. He had a garden where he grew flowers. Van Gogh must have known the place; he noted Quost’s address in the sketchbook from the beginning of his time in Paris (Cat. Amsterdam 2011, p. 236, n. 2).

6. Doctor Gachet with a pipe (F 1664 / JH 2028 ). The original copper plate is preserved in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. See Van Heugten and Pabst 1995, pp. 79-86, 99-106.

7. For the exhibition of Raffaëlli’s work, which had lasted until 21 June 1890, see letter 876, n. 1.