1. The paint order has not been preserved.

2. Marguerite Gachet at the piano (F 772 / JH 2048 ), after which Van Gogh made the letter sketch of the same name F - / JH 2049.

3. Wheatfields (F 775 / JH 2038 ), after which Van Gogh made the letter sketch Wheatfields (F - / JH -). To give an impression of what the two paintings look like in combination, Van Gogh made the second sketch of Marguerite Gachet at the piano (F - / JH -).

4. For Pierre Puvis de Chavannes’s Inter Artes et Naturam (Between art and nature) , see letter 879, n. 15.

5. The motif Van Gogh describes here displays similarities to that of the small study Two women walking in the fields (F 819 / JH 2112); the colour of the women’s clothing is different, however.

6. For Delacroix’s The education of the Virgin , see letter 781, n. 2.

7. Delacroix, George Sand wearing a man’s suit, 1834 (private collection). The first print made after it, a steel engraving by Luigi Calamatta, appeared on 15 July 1836 in Revue des Deux Mondes (between pp. 128-129). See Johnson 1981-1989, vol. 3, pp. 42-43, cat. no. 223.