56 letters found
- 031 To Theo van Gogh. London, Tuesday, 6 April 1875.
- in translation:
...and whether you know of anything else. That Victor Hugo piece is beautiful. Adieu, give my regards t...
- 042 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 2 September 1875.
- in note 6:
...r, Musée Fabre). The depiction is based on Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris, book 8, chapter 4 ‘L...
- 143 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 3 April 1878.
- in note 5:
Both phrases occur in Victor Hugo, Les contemplations, in book 3, chapter 30 ‘Magnitudo parvi’, a...
- 155 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Tuesday, 22 and Thursday, 24 June 1880.
- in translation:
...nd then last winter, Shakespeare and a little V. Hugo and Dickens and Beecher Stowe, and then recent...
...to in Michelet, and something of Delacroix in V. Hugo, and in Beecher Stowe there’s something of A...
- in note 9:
...ogh derived his knowledge of Aeschylus from Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare. Paris 1864. Other plac...
- 158 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 24 September 1880.
- in note 23:
...de by Fortuné Louis Méaulle after drawings by Hugo. They were reproduced in Philippe Burty’s arti...
- in translation:
I studied some of Hugo’s works a little this past winter. Namely Le dernier jour d’un condamné a...
...’ve seen drawings of Gothic architecture by V. Hugo. Well, without having Meryon’s powerful and ...
- in note 10:
...ton’s studio and the following remark made by Hugo in William Shakespeare concerning the house he l...
- in note 6:
Regarding Hugo’s William Shakespeare, see letter 155, n. 9.
- in note 5:
Victor Hugo, Le dernier jour d’un condamné (1829). This novel, the story of the last day in the li...
- 186 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 18 November 1881.
- in translation:
... Pa sees me with a French book by Michelet or V. Hugo in my hand, he thinks of arsonists and murdere...
- 267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
- in translation:
...mell of the days of Gavarni and of Balzac and V. Hugo in these grubby woodcuts — something of the ...
- 280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
- in note 3:
Dorn links this view to Victor Hugo’s ideas about genius in William Shakespeare. See Hugo 1864, pp....
- 286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
- in translation:
...r Zola’s book I read Quatre vingt treize by V. Hugo at long last. That’s entirely different terr...
- in note 9:
Victor Hugo’s broadly conceived historical novel Quatre-vingt-treize (1874) is set in the period af...
- 288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
- in note 25:
..., about which Van Gogh had recently read in Victor Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize; see letter 286, n. ...
- in translation:
Take the Victor Hugo by Bonnat — beautiful, really beautiful — but even more beautiful in my view...
...ing as when one has just finished a book by Victor Hugo, for example. For my part I can’t understa...
- in note 15:
... in L’art d’être grand-père (1877) by Victor Hugo. See Hugo 1972, vol. 2, p. 559. Van Gogh use...
- in note 8:
These lines most probably go back to Victor Hugo’s poem La légende des siècles (1859), in which t...
- 292 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 10 December 1882.
- in translation:
... I’ve read it in Histoire d’un crime by Victor Hugo. He’s a noble character — I wish I knew ...
Yet the sun rises, says V. Hugo.
- in note 7:
...was added as an afterthought, may come from Victor Hugo’s William Shakespeare: ‘Prometheus was R...
- in note 4:
A reference to the title of the last chapter of Hugo’s historical novel Quatre-vingt-treize (1874),...
- in note 3:
Victor Hugo’s Histoire d’un crime (1877-1878) recounts the events during the coup of December 185...
- 293 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 11 December 1882.
- in note 8:
...nd ‘grandeur morale’ occur literally in Victor Hugo’s Les misérables (book 1, chapter 4), whe...
- 294 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Wednesday, 13 and about Monday, 18 December 1882.
- in translation:
...ctly who or what will be there. I like what Victor Hugo said: religions pass, but God remains. And G...
- in note 6:
...orcière, where he likewise gives the author as Hugo: see letter 300, n. 10. Cf. also Merlhès 1989, ...
- 300 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 10 January 1883.
- in translation:
... we must follow our impulses in such cases? Victor Hugo says, ‘Over and above reason there is cons...
...main and the swings will only get stronger. Victor Hugo speaks of ‘like a lighthouse whose beam fl...
- in note 10:
... ‘phare à éclipse’ has not been traced in Hugo’s oeuvre, but a ‘phare à feux tournants’ ...
...g, ‘Les dieux passent, et non Dieu’, to Victor Hugo (he gave the quotation as ‘Les religions p...
- in note 2:
Very likely borrowed from Victor Hugo’s novel Quatre-vingt treize, which Van Gogh had recently read...
- 304 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 25 January 1883.
- in translation:
...illustrated in such a way — how fortunate that it’s that book, so fully worthy of it.Victor Hugo
One also damages, for example, the novels, like Hugo’s 93.
- in note 79:
...g the reign of terror. This illustration to Victor Hugo’s Ninety-three, in The Graphic 9 (25 April...
- in note 75:
For the novel Quatre-vingt-treize by Victor Hugo, which Van Gogh says in November he has read and cal...
- 305 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 26 or Saturday, 27 January 1883.
- in note 2:
... June 1874), p. 565. Ill. 1214 (t*119). It is an illustration to Quatre-vingt-treize by Victor Hugo.
- 309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
- in note 27:
...writes) by Marquis de Lantenac, as described in Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize (book 4, chapter 3). For...
- in note 24:
For this expression from Victor Hugo, Les contemplations, see letter 143, n. 5.
- in translation:
I saw a figure by Paterson in The Graphic, an illustration for 93 by Hugo, called Dolorosa.
- 310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
- in translation:
... Judas before the scribes by him. I believe Victor Hugo could describe that in detail so that one sa...
- 316 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 15 February 1883.
- 318 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 20 or Wednesday, 21 February 1883.
- in translation:
... the alert. Just last week I read Notre-Dame by Hugo, which I had read before over 10 years ago. Do y...
...n I would, and like me you would feel that what Hugo says is true. For those who know that Quasimodo ...
- in note 11:
Words spoken by Quasimodo in Victor Hugo’s La Esmeralda, the libretto of an opera based on his grea...
- in note 8:
The passage in Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris reads (book 4, chapter 3): ‘And all that came from Qua...
- in note 7:
In Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) Archdeacon Claude Frollo falls in love with Esmerelda. ...
- 333 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 29 March and Sunday, 1 April 1883.
- in translation:
...me to write. I’m reading Les misérables by V. Hugo. A book of which I have old memories, but at t...
It was just like a page in Hugo — and something that would certainly have struck you and that you c...
- in note 12:
Victor Hugo’s novel Les misérables (1862) tells the story of the ex-prisoner Jean Valjean against ...
- 336 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 April 1883.
- in translation:
... Fantine — but all the same this character by Hugo — like all his characters for that matter — ...
- in note 3:
The character Combeferre sings this song in Victor Hugo’s Les misérables, part 3, book 4, chapter ...
- 337 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 21 April 1883.
- in note 7:
Borrowed from Victor Hugo, Les misérables, vol. 1, book 1, chapter 4: ‘He whom man kills, God brin...
- 338 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 30 April 1883.
- in translation:
...’ve finished Les misérables. I know that Victor Hugo analyzes in a different way from Balzac and ...
- in note 14:
For Victor Hugo’s novel Les misérables, see letter 333, n. 12.
- 345 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 21 May 1883.
- in translation:
...ery good is that one sees books in your studio, Hugo, Zola, Dickens – figure painter books. Will se...
...ne doesn’t know writers like Dickens, Balzac, Hugo, Zola until one has more or less full knowledge ...
- 346 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Friday, 25 May 1883.
- in translation:
...han my grandfather even. Quatre-vingt-treize by Hugo was the one that was illustrated by all The Grap...
- in note 12:
For Victor Hugo’s novel Quatre-vingt-treize, which is set shortly after the French Revolution, see ...
- in note 5:
For Victor Hugo’s Les misérables, see letter 333, n. 12.
- 353 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 15 June 1883.
- in note 7:
This phrasing is derived from a quotation from Hugo’s Les misérables that Van Gogh cited in letter...
- 358 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 2 July 1883.
- in translation:
What V. Hugo says about Aeschylus: ‘They killed the man and then they say: “let us put up a bronz...
- in note 3:
Victor Hugo wrote in William Shakespeare: ‘He was exiled. He died in exile. Then the orator Lycurgu...
- 359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.
- in translation:
...to Zola’s Mes haines Zola’s own words about Hugo, ‘I should like to demonstrate that, given suc...
- in note 1:
...rues et des bois’ in Mes haines: ‘Given Victor Hugo and subjects pertaining to idylls and eclogu...
- 379 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 23 and about Wednesday, 29 August 1883.
- in translation:
...to apply to her what the priest Bienvenu in Victor Hugo’s Misérables used to say to ugly, even po...
- in note 6:
The passage goes back to Victor Hugo, Les misérables, book 1, chapter 13, which describes how Bienve...
- 388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
- in note 22:
Taken from Victor Hugo, Quatre-vingt-treize, part 3, book 2, chapter 7: ‘The friendship was between...
- in translation:
...of people who genuinely seek good, I think what Hugo says is true, ‘there is the BLACK ray and ther...
- 397 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Tuesday, 16 October 1883.
- in note 13:
The expression derives from Victor Hugo’s poem La légende des siècles (1859), (see letter 288, n....
- in note 4:
Taken from Victor Hugo, Les misérables, part 4, book 1, chapter 4: ‘A revolution is a return from ...
- 400 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 28 October 1883.
- in note 20:
This phrase is taken from Hugo’s Les misérables: see letter 397, n. 4.
- in note 2:
See for this term, taken from Victor Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize: letter 388, n. 22.
- 401 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Wednesday, 31 October 1883.
- in note 16:
...ck ray), later in the sentence, derived from Victor Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize: letter 388, n. 22.
- 403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
- in translation:
...Israëls, Herkomer — not to mention Michelet, Hugo, Zola, Balzac, a host more from the more distant...
- in note 5:
See for this term, derived from Victor Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize: letter 388, n. 22.
- 415 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 December 1883.
- in note 1:
... rayon noir’ (the black ray), derived from Victor Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize: letter 388, n. 22.
- 439 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 March 1884.
- in note 8:
...means that great minds do not imitate, from Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare. See Hugo 1864, p. 383,...
- 450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
- in note 14:
Dorn associates this notion with Victor Hugo’s ideas about genius in his book William Shakespeare (...
- 461 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Monday, 22 and about Sunday, 28 September 1884.
- in translation:
Quinet now, say, or Michelet or V. Hugo (later), was the difference between them and their opponents ...
- in note 10:
This line is taken from Victor Hugo, Les misérables, book 1, chapter 10. See Hugo 1951, p. 67. It is...
- in note 9:
Victor Hugo wrote several novels in which the Revolution featured, among them Les misérables (1862),...
- 476 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 December 1884.
- in translation:
...ill always be Leys and Thijs Maris, Thijs Maris — and Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame — Notre-Dame.
- in note 5:
Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831).
- 477 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 30 December 1884.
- in note 5:
...emark could be based on Van Gogh’s reading of Hugo’s William Shakespeare. Hugo had said in this c...
- 494 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 18 April 1885.
- in note 8:
...mong other things, Don Quixote and works by Victor Hugo. He worked for the periodical Le Chat Noir. ...
- 502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
- in note 19:
...e devoted in their entirety to the death of Victor Hugo. Van Gogh went on to ask in vain for this un...
- 507 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 9 June 1885.
- in translation:
...flowers that grow there in that churchyard. Victor Hugo, whom they’ve also just buried, said Relig...
- in note 2:
Victor Hugo died on 22 May 1885; on 31 May his body was placed under the Arc de Triomphe and on 1 Jun...
- 527 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 17 August 1885.
- in note 3:
Van Gogh derived this expression from Hugo’s William Shakespeare in a passage on Greek drama: ‘To...
- 547 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, Monday, 14 December 1885.
- in translation:
...to you about — a type of head in the style of V. Hugo’s — then I also have a study of a woman.
- 641 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
- in note 1:
... letter is absolutely remarkable, it would make Hugo go wild with excitement.’ (Ce passage de la le...
- 642 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
- in translation:
...a damned thing, and still. I’ve just read Victor Hugo’s L’année terrible. There’s hope ther...
- in note 11:
In Hugo’s anthology L’année terrible (1872), which deals with the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-18...
- 691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
- in translation:
...se beam flashes on and off, and so now, of course, we’re passing through that darkness.Victor Hugo
- 692 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, Monday, 1 October 1888.
- in note 3:
At the beginning of Victor Hugo’s Les misérables the central character, Jean Valjean, has just bee...
- 752 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 24 March 1889.
- in translation:
...e madhouse – why not? Didn’t Rochefort with Hugo, Quinet and others give an eternal example by su...
- in note 6:
...the 1871 Commune, sentenced to hard labour. Victor Hugo lived in exile for 20 years on Jersey and Gu...
- 784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
- in note 13:
... 17 volumes published by Pagnerre in Paris; Victor Hugo, the translator’s father, wrote the forewo...
- 798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.
- in note 19:
Regarding Brion’s illustrations to Victor Hugo’s Les misérables, see letter 333, n. 14.
- 830 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 22 December 1889.
- in translation:
... mind, that it was finer than the drawings of V. Hugo, which he likes a great deal etc. I suggested ...
- 834 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Friday, 3 January 1890.
- in translation:
In your previous letter you talk of Hugo’s drawings – I’ve just seen a volume of Michelet’s (...
- 856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
- in note 9:
This quotation, possibly from Victor Hugo, has not been traced.
1 essay item found
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
- in letter_writer_2:
...ng with Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s cabin), Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare and Aeschylus.
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1883:
...eads Carlyle’s Sartor resartus (274, 325) and Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris and Les misérables (318...
- in 1882:
...¨res, Daudet’s Les rois en exil and Le Nabab, Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize and Zola’s Pot-bouille...
- in 1880:
Winter
#Vincent reads Hugo’s Le dernier jour d’un condamné and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and K...
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29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
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