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152 To Theo van Gogh. Wasmes, on or about Thursday, 19 June 1879.
in note 10:
...s’ novel Manette Salomon (1867) by the Goncourt brothers, though it is not certain that Van Gogh h...
160 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Monday, 1 November 1880.
in note 8:
...e become familiar with this work by Edmond and Jules De Goncourt around this time, and they, too, con...
174 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Wednesday, 12 October 1881.
in note 1:
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre. Paris 1868 (reprinted several times)....
206 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 25 February 1882.
in note 6:
This pronouncement occurs in Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s biography of Gavarni. See Goncourt 1873...
212 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 16 and on or about Monday, 20 March 1882.
in note 7:
Van Gogh refers here to a passage in De Goncourt’s Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre, which describe...
216 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 10 April 1882.
in note 4:
... Gogh, who at this time was reading Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre...
217 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 14 April 1882.
in note 1:
...dvice, probably prompted by reading Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre...
218 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 18 or Wednesday, 19 April 1882.
in note 3:
...ch was probably prompted by reading Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre...
222 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 1 May 1882.
in note 20:
...dvice, probably prompted by reading Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre...
223 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 2 May 1882.
in note 4:
...dvice, probably prompted by reading Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre...
260 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 3 September 1882.
in note 1:
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre. Van Gogh read the book in October 188...
in translation:
...k about Gavarni. I thought it very interesting, and have become doubly attached to G. because of it.
274 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 22 October 1882.
in note 8:
...Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre by Jules and Edmond de Goncourt. Meanwhile Theo had the book (see le...
276 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in note 13:
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt reveal in Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre: ‘He produced five of those...
277 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in note 11:
Jules and Edmond de Goncourt characterize Daumier as Gavarni’s ‘rival’ in Gavarni, l’homme et...
309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in note 25:
The Goncourt brothers recorded this pronouncement by Gavarni in Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre as f...
331 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 21 March 1883.
in note 13:
...) (Gavarni 1881, p. 97). Ill. 2088. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt discussed this work in Gavarni, l’...
356 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 22 June 1883.
in note 18:
In Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre Edmond and Jules de Goncourt write at length about Gavarni’s ti...
360 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Saturday, 7 July 1883.
in translation:
...ll. Do you know Germinie Lacerteux by Jules and E. de Goncourt? That’s supposed to be very good, in...
363 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 22 July 1883.
in translation:
...eur Philomène by De Goncourt, who wrote Gavarni. The story is set in a hospital, very good.Goncourt
in note 21:
Van Gogh knew the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt through their book Gavarni, l’homme et l’...
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in note 11:
This saying is taken from De Goncourt’s Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre. It occurs in a paragraph ...
534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
in note 8:
... term ‘citron amorti’ (dull lemon) from De Goncourt's Chérie, where an artist talks of ‘la nu...
in note 18:
The novel Chérie (1884) by Edmond de Goncourt tells the story of the brief life of Marie Chérie Hau...
in translation:
...s. Will also send you before long a book by De Goncourt — Chérie. De Goncourt is always good, and...
535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
in translation:
...signment in good order. There’s a book by De Goncourt about Chardin, Boucher, Watteau and Fragonar...
in note 27:
...tième siècle (1859-1875) in which Jules and Edmond de Goncourt give an overview of a number of impo...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in note 8:
Theo sent the De Goncourts’ L’art du dix-huitième siècle not long after this: see letter 539.
in translation:
...rly want to hear something about Chardin by De Goncourt. La Caze’s Rembrandt is really also in tha...
538 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 3 or Wednesday, 4 November 1885.
in note 1:
Theo had probably referred to what the De Goncourts quoted from Denis Diderot in L’art du dix-huiti...
in note 14:
...for L’art du dix-huitième siècle by the De Goncourts, which Theo had promised to send: letter 53...
in translation:
I’m really looking forward to De Goncourt.
539 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 7 November 1885.
in note 6:
...of art have to be seen from a distance. The De Goncourts say of Chardin’s works: ‘look at them c...
in note 4:
The De Goncourts write that Chardin’s father was a carpenter, not that the painter himself was a me...
in note 1:
See for L’art du dix-huitième siècle by the De Goncourts: letter 535, n. 27.
in note 18:
The De Goncourts held forth about La Tour’s greed (‘the painter is grasping’ (le peintre est av...
in note 14:
...aux-forts de Jules de Goncourt’ it says that Edmond ‘was also a painter when it suited him’ (fu...
in translation:
I received De Goncourt’s book yesterday evening. I started reading it right away, and although I’...
Did you know that the De Goncourts made etchings and drawings? You mustn’t think I’m being imprac...
Regards, I really wanted to tell you right away how good I think De Goncourt’s book.
in note 20:
The De Goncourts describe pastel as ‘volatile’ (p. 326) and ‘fragile paint’ (p. 372) and they...
541 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 14 November 1885.
in note 1:
...rom L’art du dix-huitième siècle by the De Goncourts: ‘What to do, what to become? One must th...
in translation:
...��d underlined in the article on Chardin in De Goncourt’s book. After speaking about painters bein...
545 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Saturday, 28 November 1885.
in note 10:
Volume 2 of Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, L’art du dix-huitième siècle. We learn from letter 551 ...
in translation:
...so please address your letter there, and the second volume of De Goncourt when you’ve finished it.
550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
in note 12:
...his preface to his novel Chérie (1884), Edmond de Goncourt looks back at his achievements and those ...
in note 11:
Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, L’art du dix-huitième siècle; see letters 535 and 545.
in translation:
...lly like both. I’m re-reading the book by De Goncourt again, it’s excellent. In the preface to C...
...y of the studies of women by the very great people in literature, Zola, Daudet, De Goncourt, Balzac.
551 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Saturday, 2 January 1886.
in note 19:
... in L’art du dix-huitième siècle by the De Goncourts (see Goncourt 1881-1914, vol. 2, pp. 3-101)...
in note 17:
... of L’art du dix-huitième siècle by the De Goncourts, which Van Gogh had asked for in letter 545...
in note 16:
Taken from the preface to Edmond de Goncourt’s Chérie, where the same word is emphasized: ‘Well!...
in translation:
... thank you for sending the second volume of De Goncourt. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to exam...
552 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, between Tuesday, 12 and Saturday, 16 January 1886.
in translation:
Anyway — regards — De Goncourt’s book is good.
556 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Friday, 29 January 1886.
in translation:
...t Millet and Sensier, look at Balzac, Zola, De Goncourt. Look at Delacroix. All the same — s...
557 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886.
in note 15:
Taken from the preface to Edmond de Goncourt’s Chérie: ‘Well! when you have done that... it will...
in translation:
...o all the good fellows, for one sees in the De Goncourts — that obstinacy is necessary, for ...
559 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Saturday, 6 February 1886.
in note 3:
At the end of the preface to Chérie, Edmond de Goncourt writes about a walk he took with his brother...
560 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 9 February 1886.
in translation:
... breathe more freely. Men like Zola and the De Goncourts believe in it with the simplicity of overgr...
I’m sending you that novel by De Goncourt specifically for the introduction above all — which con...
...nt day, like, say, the last walk of the two De Goncourts, which you’ll find described. The last da...
561 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 11 February 1886.
in note 2:
...icane’ here is derived from Chérie by Edmond de Goncourt. The expression ‘chercher chicane’ (t...
562 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Sunday, 14 February 1886.
in translation:
...ve you read that introduction to Chérie by De Goncourt yet? When one looks at it, the mass of work ...
574 To Willemien van Gogh. Paris, late October 1887.
in note 6:
In La fille Elisa (1877) Edmond de Goncourt narrates the tale of Elisa, a girl who has to support her...
in note 5:
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s novel Germinie Lacerteux (1864) tells the story of the servant girl ...
in translation:
...ontrary, if one wants truth, life as it is, De Goncourt, for example, in Germinie Lacerteux, La fill...
...uralists Zola, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, De Goncourt, Richepin, Daudet, Huysmans is magnificent a...
585 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 16 March 1888.
in translation:
...study medicine, he knows the works of Zola, De Goncourt and Guy de Maupassant, and he has enough mon...
602 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 1 May 1888.
in translation:
Raffaëlli has done a portrait of Edmond de Goncourt, hasn’t he? That must be beautiful. I’ve see...
621 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 5 or Wednesday, 6 June 1888.
in note 9:
...me he had starved himself to death. Jules and Edmond de Goncourt discussed Meryon’s folie in their ...
635 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 1 July 1888.
in note 8:
...referring to the following words of Jules and Edmond de Goncourt: ‘Tobacco, salvation in times of a...
in translation:
...ve played other tricks on them. And Jules and Edmond de Goncourt say this, word for word — ‘we to...
645 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 22 July 1888.
in note 8:
The third volume of the diaries of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, covering the years 1866-1870, was pu...
in translation:
Have you read in De Goncourt that Jules Dupré also gave them the impression that he was crazy?
655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
in note 4:
...ust try to become ‘someone’ – from Edmond de Goncourt’s foreword to his novel Chérie (1884):...
in translation:
...ch a watercolour brush and a rose. And also a society lady, like those the De Goncourts portrayed.
656 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 6 August 1888.
in note 3:
...tter 550, n. 12, for the expression ‘to be someone’, taken from Edmond de Goncourt’s Chérie.
in translation:
...onsumptive or nervous cab-horse, like Delacroix or De Goncourt, with broad ideas though, be any less
674 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 4 September 1888.
in note 7:
Van Gogh is referring here to what Jules and Edmond de Goncourt noted in their Journal on 12 Septembe...
in translation:
... and that’s what I don’t like about the De Goncourts, although it’s the truth — they end up ...
677 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 September 1888.
in note 11:
Possibly an allusion to Edmond de Goncourt’s La maison d’un artiste; cf. letter 674, n. 7.
678 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888.
in translation:
...hing that he’s done. Zola — Maupassant, De Goncourt, one has to have read them as thoroughly as ...
681 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 16 September 1888.
in note 6:
...ist (the delightful home of this prince: Edmond de Goncourt), it is in Auteuil that you could find th...
685 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 21 September 1888.
in note 10:
...for the novel Germinie Lacerteux by Jules and Edmond de Goncourt. By ‘Germinie Lacerteux’s colour...
702 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 10 or Thursday, 11 October 1888.
in note 3:
Edmond de Goncourt’s Les frères Zemganno (1879) tells the life story of the acrobats Nello and Gia...
in translation:
...’ve ever read Les frères Zemganno by the De Goncourts, who perhaps loosely retrace their own hist...
710 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 22 October 1888.
in note 5:
See letter 702, n. 3, for Edmond de Goncourt’s Les frères Zemganno.
in translation:
... you ever read Les frères Zemganno, by the De Goncourts? If not, read it. If I hadn’t read it I w...
739 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Monday, 21 January 1889.
in note 13:
For De Goncourt’s Germinie Lacerteux, see letter 574, n. 5.
753 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 29 March 1889.
in note 4:
For Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Germinie Lacerteux, see letter 574, n. 5.
800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
in note 19:
Van Gogh is alluding to the passage in Goncourt’s Manette Salomon (1867), in which the painter Chas...
804 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.
in note 12:
For the novel Germinie Lacerteux by Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, see letter 574, n. 5. Germinie’s ...
in translation:
... you’re not absolutely enthusiastic about De Goncourt’s masterly book. So much the better that y...
...t I should have an unbounded admiration for De Goncourt, Zola, Flaubert, Maupassant, Huysmans. But a...
805 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.
in translation:
... I being such an ardent admirer of Zola, of De Goncourt and of artistic things which I feel so much,...
831 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 23 December 1889.
in note 1:
... in many French novels, by Balzac, Zola and De Goncourt, among others. See Max Milner, ‘Le peintre...

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Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
in letter_writer_4:
...and do battle for the good cause as Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Jules and Emile Breton, Guillaume a...

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Chronology
in 1885:
October #Reads Edmond the Goncourt’s Chérie (534).

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57 letters, 1 essay item and 1 other item found

57 letters found

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Vincent van Gogh, The Letters