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162 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, January 1881.
in note 2:
...e that Van Gogh’s drawing was based on the illustration by Honoré Daumier (see letter 274, n. 3).
in translation:
...truthfulness, such as Gavarni, Henry Monnier, Daumier, De Lemud, Henri Pille, T. Schuler, E. Morin, ...
267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
in note 33:
Honoré Daumier, De vier leeftijden van den drinker (The four ages of the drinker) uit De Hollandsche...
in note 31:
...irst five volumes (1864-1869) there were five Daumiers, 33 works after Doré, and one after Jacque. ...
in translation:
First 3 very beautiful Daumiers.Daumier
The four ages of the drinker by Daumier has always seemed to me one of his most beautiful things.
Even if you had nothing else by Daumier, the master would still be well represented in your collectio...
274 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 22 October 1882.
in note 3:
Van Gogh is possibly referring to Daumier’s illustration ‘Ferragus, les deux mains sur sa canne�...
in translation:
...rticularly struck at the time by a drawing by Daumier, an old man under the chestnut trees in the Ch...
276 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in translation:
...a bench under a chestnut tree in the park? That print is as beautiful as the most beautiful Daumier.
277 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in note 14:
...ux provided twelve illustrations with several Daumier-like figures for the satirical weekly Uylenspi...
in note 13:
For Daumier’s print of Ferragus, see letter 274, n. 3.
in note 12:
For Daumier, Physiologie du buveur – Les quatre âges (The physiology of the drinker – The four a...
in translation:
...k and that, for instance, the caricatures are definitely not his most typical or main work. Daumier
...incenhage, and you said then that you thought Daumier more beautiful than Gavarni, and I took Gavarn...
278 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
in translation:
...d them even more sympathetic than Gavarni and Daumier, is that, while the latter seem to view societ...
280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
in note 7:
In 1832-1833 Honoré Daumier made various caricature portraits of politicians for La caricature polit...
in translation:
...like, for example, what you write to me about Daumier. The series of portraits of politicians &c., t...
283 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 16 or Friday, 17 November 1882.
in translation:
...me to write. Adieu, old chap, thanks again for your letter, and believe me, with a handshake,Daumier
288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
in note 24:
... request in letter 283 to return to a work by Daumier mentioned previously (not identified) which, t...
in translation:
That painting by Daumier must have been beautiful. It’s puzzling that something that speaks as clea...
292 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 10 December 1882.
in note 3:
... and the young revolutionary at the centre of Daumier’s painting, unless he was referring to a dra...
in translation:
...hem ironically. It’s just like a drawing by Daumier. You wrote to me about Daumier saying that he�...
295 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 22 December 1882.
in translation:
... I would rather see an ordinary lithograph by Daumier or Gavarni or Lemud. Anyway, a steady drawing ...
296 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 27 December 1882.
in note 2:
Given the other Daumier engravings Van Gogh acquired from De Hollandsche Illustratie and a print afte...
in translation:
...en one has toothache, but it’s curious that Daumier’s drawings, for example, are so striking tha...
297 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 31 December 1882 and Tuesday, 2 January 1883.
in translation:
...y of the sound a violin makes, such as Lemud, Daumier, Lançon. Others, like Gavarni and Bodmer, are...
305 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 26 or Saturday, 27 January 1883.
in note 6:
Theo may have written about Daumier’s The Revolution of 1848. A family on the barricades (Prague, N...
in translation:
...hings, drawings of Shakers by him, and a Mormon church, and Indian women &c., and emigrants. Daumier
307 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 4 February 1883.
in translation:
...n me very good information several times in the past (about Daumier’s painted work, for example).
308 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 5 February 1883.
in translation:
...an I am with — in her everyday actions. But Daumier certainly would. I thought of Heyerdahl’s wo...
309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in note 5:
...n Gogh gives two French titles here, he means Daumier’s Het uitgaan van de schouwburgen (Leaving t...
in translation:
...ing of those who have seen a tragedy and those who have seen a vaudeville — and art lovers.Daumier
310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in note 6:
For Daumier’s The four ages of the drinker, see letter 267, n. 33.
in note 5:
For Daumier’s Leaving the theatres, see letter 309, n. 5.
in translation:
...Goriot, for example – in which one finds a degree of passion in words that’s white-hot. Daumier
312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.
in translation:
...tensive general science, as there is behind other simple-looking work, for example that of Daumier.
354 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Friday, 15 June 1883.
in translation:
...ters, the reception, the table, the servant. And Degroux has it as well and Daumier has it as well.
356 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 22 June 1883.
in translation:
...ux, say, or what you sometimes wrote to me of Daumier, say, I find in them something of worship of s...
361 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 July 1883.
in note 41:
Van Gogh had mentioned Daumier’s The physiology of the drinker – The four ages earlier: see lette...
in translation:
...at ‘Night’ by Michelangelo, or a drunk by Daumier, or The diggers by Millet, and that large wood...
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in note 20:
...e friends who were instrumental in buying a house for Daumier, who was almost blind. Cf. letter 694.
436 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 10 March 1884.
in translation:
...urself with my drawings when they’re so good that you could put them alongside Millet and Daumier.
...dealt chiefly in that sort of art, Millet and Daumier, I say to that that the house of G&C definitel...
...hing about G&Cie as specialists in Millet and Daumier is really going too far. Did you truly think I...
... ‘find him less disagreeable as a man’. Daumier — particularly Daumier in his early days —...
I believe that Millet and Daumier were pretty much ignored by all the dealers.
461 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Monday, 22 and about Sunday, 28 September 1884.
in note 4:
This may be a lithograph of Daumier’s The Revolution of 1848. A family on the barricades: see lette...
in translation:
...cies in society, and as such is something very different from expressly intended nastiness. Daumier
463 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 30 September 1884.
in note 6:
See for Daumier’s The Revolution of 1848. A family on the barricades: letter 305, n. 6.
in translation:
In that lithograph by Daumier or De Lemud, whichever of them it may be, the main subject is precisely...
475 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 14 December 1884.
in translation:
...nk they’re very fine. And in my view he’s someone of the true race of the Daumiers and Gavarnis.
480 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 26 January 1885.
in translation:
...at it seems to me this drawing could well hold its own beside Millet, beside Daumier, beside Lepage.
493 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 13 April 1885.
in translation:
...�� and although he remains in obscurity, like Daumier, like Tassaert — there are still people, Mel...
496 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 28 April 1885.
in note 8:
...t hate was Ingres but who fanatically admired Daumier. Nothing was funnier than to hear him having h...
in translation:
...Ingres is nothing but an image maker and that Daumier infinitely surpasses him’, or something of t...
515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
in translation:
...llet, a Lhermitte, a Régamey, a Lhermitte, a Daumier. They’re also well constructed — but not t...
...ortion and anatomy. But when Israëls or when Daumier or Lhermitte, say, draw a figure, one ...
People like Daumier — one has to respect them because they’re among the pioneers. The simple nude...
526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
in translation:
...oix, Corot, Troyon, Daubigny, Rousseau, and a Daumier or a Jacque, and above all not forgetting Jule...
600 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 20 April 1888.
in note 10:
Work by Daumier and Gavarni was on show in the exhibition of caricatures in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts ...
in translation:
...ow at the Beaux-Arts, and Gavarni? Bravo as far as Daumier’s concerned, not the Beaux-Arts.Daumier
610 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 14 May 1888.
in note 4:
...88. The book gives a chronological summary of Daumier’s life and work, and contains a catalogue of...
in translation:
...ook on Daumier, L’homme et l’oeuvre? Have you seen the exhibition of the caricaturists? Daumier
613 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 26 May 1888.
in translation:
...�m delighted that you’ve bought the book on Daumier — but if you could add to that by buying som...
626 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between Saturday, 16 and Wednesday, 20 June 1888.
in translation:
...names like Delacroix, Millet, Corot, Courbet, Daumier, who dominate everything that was produced in ...
635 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 1 July 1888.
in translation:
...w of them — on the other hand, Monticellis, Daumiers, Corots, Daubignys and Millets aren’t ugly ...
651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
in translation:
Daumier is also a really great genius.
655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
in translation:
However, let’s return to Daumier and to your grandmother. When are you going to show us more of the...
...anguy. Goddamn, what a subject to paint à la Daumier, eh? He was getting too stiff while posing, an...
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in translation:
...e still plenty of fine lithographs to be had, Daumiers, reproductions of Delacroix, Decamps, Diaz, R...
662 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 15 August 1888.
in translation:
... watercolours but in oils, on the spot, like Daumier. If I did a hundred like that there’d be som...
663 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 18 August 1888.
in translation:
...ears ago. It was something out of Delacroix, out of Daumier, out of the old Dutch painting entirely.
672 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 1 September 1888.
in translation:
...t’s really a bit old, etc., but the work of Daumier and De Lemud is no uglier for belonging to a p...
673 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 3 September 1888.
in translation:
...ask your advice on buying Japanese prints and Daumier lithographs. For those, the Daumiers, it would...
677 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 September 1888.
in translation:
.... That will have character à la Daumier — and it won’t, I dare predict, be commonplace. Daumier
Now I’m going to ask you to look for some Daumier lithographs for the studio, and some Japanese pri...
682 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in translation:
...let, of course, but failing that, it’s pure Daumier, pure Zola. Now that’s quite enough to find ...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in translation:
Throughout the Tartarin side and the Daumier side of this funny part of the world, where the good fol...
686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.
in note 2:
These Daumiers probably included the lithograph Emotions de chasse (Emotions of the hunt) from Le Cha...
in translation:
...the artists who sketch from life — Hokusai, Daumier, for me this figure is never what the figure p...
...ll the Japanese prints in the studio, and the Daumiers and the Delacroixs and the Géricault. If you...
...way of drawing that’s as rich and superb as Daumier and Delacroix. Certainly, at the prices Montic...
694 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in note 15:
...a result of the efforts of Camille Corot, Honoré Daumier was in a position to buy a house in Valmon...
in translation:
...e, like the one back then, when Corot, seeing Daumier at bay, gave him enough to live on, in such a ...
695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in translation:
...see nothing more beautiful than things out of Daumier, figures here are often pure Daumier. Now, as ...
703 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 13 October 1888.
in translation:
... sublime country, it’s all something out of Daumier come to life. Have you re-read the Tartarins y...
714 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 27 or Sunday, 28 October 1888.
in translation:
If you ever find any more Daumiers, don’t forget to get your hands on them.
781 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 16 June 1889.
in note 5:
... 513-525), Ricard 7 (cat. nos. 577–583) and Daumier 5 (cat. nos. 229-233) See exhib. cat. Paris 18...
in translation:
...net, Delacroix, Millet, Ricard, and above all Daumier. Some Degas were put in it, but he had them ta...
782 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.
in translation:
...eings who are also more serene and purer than Daumier had before him. But of course following Daumie...
798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.
in translation:
...appiness, of perfect finds. Certainly I know, Daumier, Millet, Delacroix have another way of drawing...
799 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 5 September 1889.
in translation:
... knows the nature of the Dutch countryside as Daumier knew his lawyers, the stunted trees, the muddy...
801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
in translation:
... and strange perspectives of the canals ‘as Daumier does his lawyers’, I think that’s perfect....
805 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.
in translation:
...in the studios – they fill in outlines. And Daumier was always painting his face in the mirror to ...
822 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in translation:
...e extent you had to forget Parisian things à la Baudelaire. How I prefer Daumier to that gentleman!
834 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Friday, 3 January 1890.
in translation:
...published by L’Illustration – but then with Vierge there’s Daumier’s rich execution in full.
839 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 13 January 1890.
in note 13:
For Daumier, The four ages of the drinker, see letter 267, n. 33. Van Gogh made a painting after it i...
in translation:
So what I’m pondering doing in painting is Daumier’s Drinkers and Régamey’s Penitentiary. Yo...
850 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 1 February 1890.
in note 14:
...on of ‘the Virgin’. The prints made after Daumier’s The four ages of the drinker and Doré’s...
854 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 12 February 1890.
in note 8:
For Daumier’s The four ages of the drinker, see letter 267, n. 33. Van Gogh’s painting after this...
in translation:
I’ve tried to copy Daumier’s Drinkers and Doré’s Penitentiary, it’s very difficult.
874 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Wednesday, 21 May 1890.
in note 5:
...r, née Dassy (or d’Assy), the widow of Honoré Daumier, was living in 1890 in Valmondois, near Au...

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Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
in letter_writer_4:
...licates to this batch. First 3 very beautiful Daumiers. 1 Jacque. If you have them already, please r...

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Vincent van Gogh, The Letters