32 letters found
- 054 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 6 October 1875.
- in note 16:
...€™ (an excellent landscapist), recorded in Charles Blanc’s Grammaire des arts du dessin (1870), p....
- 115 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 21 and Tuesday, 22 May 1877.
- in translation:
...s fallen asleep leaning her head on her hand. C. Blanc writes about it so beautifully and with so muc...
- in note 24:
In L’Oeuvre complet de Rembrandt, Charles Blanc was lyrical about the etching. In his opinion it wa...
- 152 To Theo van Gogh. Wasmes, on or about Thursday, 19 June 1879.
- in note 10:
... already well known in his day – through Charles Blanc, Grammaire des arts du dessin; it also occu...
- 276 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 29 October 1882.
- in note 8:
...t he knew this volume of Musée Universel. Charles Blanc, Grammaire des arts du dessin also included...
- 448 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 29 May 1884.
- in note 4:
Among the books Van Rappard sent were Charles Blanc, Les artistes de mon temps and Eugène Fromentin,...
- 449 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 6 June 1884.
- in note 6:
...ssay on Delacroix in Les artistes de mon temps Blanc writes about ‘the principles of colour’ and...
- in note 5:
...an Gogh likewise derived these views on the use of colour from Delacroix, by way of Blanc’s essay.
- in note 4:
The quote is the opening of Charles Blanc’s essay on Eugène Delacroix in Les artistes de mon temps...
- in translation:
I’ll just copy out a passage from Les artistes de mon temps by C. Blanc:
- 450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
- in note 15:
On this question Blanc says in Les artistes de mon temps: ‘Thus — when one mixes together blue an...
- in note 14:
...also letter 280). In Les artistes de mon temps Blanc talked of Delacroix’s ‘genie lumineux’ (b...
- in note 12:
...‘les tons voisins’ (neighbouring tones) in Blanc’s essay on Delacroix in Les artistes de mon t...
- in translation:
And in the days of Thoré and Blanc there were people who wrote things that are now, unfortunately, a...
Among other things I thought what C. Blanc says in Les artistes de mon temps about Velázquez’s tec...
- 452 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 20 July 1884.
- in note 5:
...ut art and Grammaire des arts du dessin by Charles Blanc. Both there and here he must be referring t...
- 454 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between mid-August and early September 1884.
- in note 17:
Charles Blanc, Grammaire des arts du dessin, architecture, sculpture, peinture. Paris 1867. We consul...
- in translation:
...llet by Sensier, and I myself bought a book by Blanc, Grammaire des arts du dessin, because of a pas...
- 459 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, Sunday, 21 September 1884.
- in note 2:
A reference to letter 454. See for Blanc's Grammaire des arts du dessin: letter 454, n. 17.
- in note 1:
These books were Charles Blanc, Les artistes de mon temps and Eugène Fromentin, Les maîtres d’aut...
- in translation:
...e read them, I’m today returning the book by Blanc and the one by Fromentin. As I said, as a conse...
- 478 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, between Thursday, 1 and about Thursday, 8 January 1885.
- in note 3:
After reading Blanc’s Les artistes de mon temps Van Gogh sought to conquer the rendering of chiaros...
- 494 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 18 April 1885.
- in note 1:
...an Gogh copied out and enclosed comes from Charles Blanc, Les artistes de mon temps (see n. 10 below...
- in note 10:
Derived from Charles Blanc, Les artistes de mon temps (Blanc 1876, pp. 64-66, 69). Vincent amended th...
...€˜ton rompu’ also letter 450, n. 12. See for Blanc's Grammaire des arts du dessin: letter 454, n. ...
- 496 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 28 April 1885.
- in note 7:
This anecdote is taken from Blanc’s Les artistes de mon temps (Blanc 1876, pp. 76-77).
- in note 6:
...ead about Delacroix’s ideas on colour in Charles Blanc’s Grammaire des arts du dessin and in Les...
- 497 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 30 April 1885.
- in note 4:
...is view derives from what Van Gogh had read in Blanc’s Grammaire des arts du dessin. See exhib. ca...
- 499 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 2 May 1885.
- in note 9:
Taken from Charles Blanc, Les artistes de mon temps (see Blanc 1876, pp. 23-24). This observation is ...
- 526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
- in note 6:
See for this anecdote, taken from Charles Blanc, Les artistes de mon temps: letter 496, n. 7.
- 531 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 2 September 1885.
- in note 9:
...painter Paul Marc Joseph Chenavard through Charles Blanc, who devoted a chapter to him in Les artist...
- 535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
- in note 19:
...l. 2158. There is an engraving after it in Charles Blanc’s Les artistes de mon temps, from which V...
- 536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
- in note 7:
Van Gogh had bought Blanc’s Grammaire des arts du dessin (see letter 454); Theo had evidently asked...
- in note 19:
Blanc had written about this in the section ‘Le blanc et le noir’ (chapter 13) of Grammaire des a...
- in translation:
I’ll send you the book by Blanc — want to read L’art du XVIIIme siècle as soon as possible —...
- in note 28:
...an Gogh was familiar with the concept from Charles Blanc’s essay on Delacroix in Les artistes de m...
- in note 23:
...te of Delacroix’s about Veronese (taken from Blanc’s Les artistes de mon temps) in letter 449. I...
- in note 20:
On the same page that Blanc discusses Delacroix’s Barque of Dante, he says: ‘Whilst the colouring...
- 537 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 28 October 1885.
- in note 9:
...hrase derives from Van Gogh’s quotation from Blanc’s Les artistes de mon temps with regard to De...
- in note 8:
... in which Van Gogh copied out the relevant passage from Charles Blanc’s Les artistes de mon temps.
- in note 7:
... Gogh may have taken this description from Charles Blanc, who talks about ‘the orchestration of co...
- in note 15:
...Gogh’s opinion corresponds closely with what Blanc had written about Veronese’s work in Les arti...
- in translation:
...he ones who don’t do it in the local colour — that was what Blanc and Delacroix discussed once.
- 538 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 3 or Wednesday, 4 November 1885.
- in note 7:
... promised (see letter 536), he meant to return Theo’s copy of Blanc’s Les artistes de mon temps.
- in translation:
I’m enclosing the book by Charles Blanc in the crate with the studies — also a Bible they gave me...
- 543 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 20 November 1885.
- in note 8:
Charles Blanc, Grammaire des arts du dessin; see letters 536 and 538. The book was never sent.
- in translation:
I’ll send you the book by Charles Blanc etc. from Antwerp as soon as I can put a few studies in wit...
- 589 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 25 March 1888.
- in note 2:
...s’; this choice of words may derive from Charles Blanc, Grammaire des arts du dessin and Les artis...
- 598 To John Peter Russell. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.
- in note 14:
...es. He had read about his use of colour in Charles Blanc, Les artistes de mon temps; see letter 450,...
- 622 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1888.
- in note 3:
...lour’, possibly deriving the notion from Charles Blanc. See letter 537, n. 7. His reading about Wa...
- 628 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 19 June 1888.
- in note 10:
...s form of words is similar to that used by Charles Blanc in his Grammaire des arts du dessin when he...
- 649 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
- in note 13:
Charles Blanc wrote about Dutch art mainly in his Ecole Hollandaise (1861), which is part of the seri...
- in translation:
However, it’s Frenchmen, C. Blanc, Thoré, Fromentin, certain others, who have written better than ...
- 668 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 23 or Friday, 24 August 1888.
- in note 7:
...have got the concept of ‘haloing’ from Charles Blanc, who wrote in his Grammaire des arts du des...
- 683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
- in note 29:
...Het Eindhovensch Dagblad, 10 October 1930. Charles Blanc had written in Les artistes de mon temps: â...
- 722 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 21 November 1888.
- in note 5:
For Blanc’s Grammaire des arts du dessin, see letter 454, n. 17. Van Gogh’s reference to the ‘a...
- in translation:
...re’s book on E. Delacroix, and the article on colour in C. Blanc’s Grammaire des arts du dessin?
- 853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.
- in note 20:
...th Scottish tartans in letter 497, in connection with his Potato Eaters and Blanc’s colour theory.
- 865 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 1 May 1890.
- in note 8:
In L’Oeuvre complet de Rembrandt, Charles Blanc discusses in detail the small and large Raising of ...
- in translation:
...ooked at it and I remembered not only what Charles Blanc says of it, but indeed even that he doesnâ€...
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29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
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Charles Blanc (1813-1882) French writer
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