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155 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Tuesday, 22 and Thursday, 24 June 1880.
in translation:
...ll know) what Rembrandt was or what Millet was, or Jules Dupré or Delacroix or Millais or M. Maris.
...less warm now towards Rembrandt or Millet or Delacroix, or whomever or whatever, because it’s the ...
...eggio or Sarto in Michelet, and something of Delacroix in V. Hugo, and in Beecher Stowe there’s so...
236 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Tuesday, 6 June 1882.
in note 2:
According to Silvestre, Eugène Delacroix characterized the art of painting as follows: ‘Cette maî...
249 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 July 1882.
in note 4:
For this pronouncement, known from Delacroix and Emerson, see letter 236, n. 2.
280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
in translation:
... name just a few), or still further, Ingres, Delacroix, Géricault, think how old it already is, mod...
376 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 19 August 1883.
in note 5:
It is not clear which work by Delacroix is meant here; two works – both lost – are known as Mater...
in translation:
...now that I’ve seen that again, I respect that depth and hold my tongue about her faults. Delacroix
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in translation:
...ure that he wants to play judge? God forbid. Delacroix would have understood her, I dare say, and Go...
449 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 6 June 1884.
in note 6:
In his essay on Delacroix in Les artistes de mon temps Blanc writes about ‘the principles of colour...
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:
...he opening of Charles Blanc’s essay on Eugène Delacroix in Les artistes de mon temps (Blanc 1876,...
in translation:
About three months before the death of E. Delacroix, we met him in the Palais Royal galleries, at abo...
Eugène Delacroix took two steps backward, winking as was his wont: ‘That’s perfectly true — he...
... copy something else out of that piece about Delacroix, about the laws that always apply to colours....
450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
in note 14:
...In Les artistes de mon temps Blanc talked of Delacroix’s ‘genie lumineux’ (brilliant genius), ...
in note 12:
...� (neighbouring tones) in Blanc’s essay on Delacroix in Les artistes de mon temps (see Blanc 1876,...
454 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between mid-August and early September 1884.
in note 17:
...n temps, where Blanc talks of the colours in Delacroix and then refers to his Grammaire (Blanc 1876,...
461 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Monday, 22 and about Sunday, 28 September 1884.
in note 3:
Eugène Delacroix, La barricade (The barricade), or: La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty guiding t...
in translation:
...ricade, that I only know from biographies of Delacroix. I think it was painted in 1848. You also kno...
490 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 6 April 1885.
in note 12:
...erived this from what Jean Gigoux says about Delacroix in Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps (G...
in translation:
I was thinking again of what I read about Delacroix — 17 of his paintings were rejected; ‘dix-sep...
492 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 9 April 1885.
in note 4:
... vaillaints’ to describe the generation of Delacroix, seeking recognition, in Causeries sur les ar...
494 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 18 April 1885.
in note 2:
Derived from what Gigoux wrote about Delacroix in Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps (Gigoux 188...
in translation:
...losed a few interesting pages about colour, that is, the great verities in which Delacroix believed.
...uminous theory of colours — a theory that E. Delacroix mastered scientifically and thoroughly, afte...
495 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 21 April 1885.
in translation:
...peasant and landscape painters will revolve. Delacroix, Millet, Corot and the rest. This is — in m...
...e Portier of in this letter is my — faith — precisely in Eugène Delacroix and those old people.
496 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 28 April 1885.
in note 6:
Van Gogh had read about Delacroix’s ideas on colour in Charles Blanc’s Grammaire des arts du dess...
in note 3:
...r les artistes de mon temps, who wrote about Delacroix: ‘He wanted life; life at all costs, life e...
in translation:
It’s the second time that I’ve derived a great deal from something Delacroix said.
...ople were going home late in the evening — Delacroix, with his usual vivacity and passion — shou...
497 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 30 April 1885.
in note 12:
...ired by Jean Gigoux’s comment on a work by Delacroix in Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: �...
499 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 2 May 1885.
in translation:
...ists could have done that in the same way as Delacroix says of Paul Veronese — that he painted whi...
502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
in translation:
... — I cannot advise you enough to work out E. Delacroix’s different propositions about colour for ...
...re. These days I’m working on putting what Delacroix said about drawing into practice on drawing a...
506 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 2 June 1885.
in translation:
...ld study the technique and colour of Millet, Delacroix, Corot and others. There’s absolutely no im...
515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
in translation:
...in the book by Gigoux how it came about that Delacroix had 17 paintings rejected at the same time. T...
...ve to paint a lot more if we take that about Delacroix as our starting-point. I must necessarily be ...
But it will live. And above all Delacroix, too.
526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
in note 8:
...first one to come along exclaims on seeing a Delacroix picture: He doesn’t know how to draw! Say r...
in note 4:
...ers back to: ‘Towards the end of 1843, Eugène Delacroix said of the Chapelle Saint-Denis du Saint...
in note 2:
...ighteen hundred and sixty-three, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, a painter of high breeding, who ...
in translation:
Have you heard much about Eugène Delacroix? I’ve read a splendid article about him by Silvestre. T...
Here’s some more: Delacroix writes to a friend: ‘the chapel where I painted my Pietà was so dark...
...uring his piece of flesh’. And Silvestre’s article is particularly full of this latter.Delacroix
...fellows those French painters are. A Millet, Delacroix, Corot, Troyon, Daubigny, Rousseau, and a Dau...
Something else about Delacroix — he had a discussion with a friend about the question of working ab...
...ing this article and some other things about Delacroix, too, by Gigoux. I’ve also read a beautiful...
Something else on Delacroix. Silvestre writes: they say that Delacroix doesn’t draw — say rather ...
...mething else — the painter Gigoux comes to Delacroix with an ancient bronze and asks his opinion a...
...ition and proportion of these egg shapes. And I, says Delacroix, was first shown this by Géricault.
528 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 August 1885.
in translation:
...ind very encouraging. The success of the Eugène Delacroix exhibition. Then I was interested in what...
532 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Friday, 25 and about Tuesday, 29 September 1885.
in translation:
...thing — at bottom — as the theories that Delacroix discovered — although what he says about dr...
534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
in translation:
Delacroix would have adored it — just adored it to the utmost.
...t’s what he is in the Jewish bride. Oh how Delacroix would have understood that very painting! Wha...
...voort fisherman, for instance, is to my mind Delacroix-like and superb, and the present-day cold, fl...
535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
in note 19:
Eugène Delacroix, The barque of Dante (Dante and Virgil in hell), 1822 (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Il...
in translation:
...ll, just go ahead and hang it next to an old Delacroix, The barque of Dante, and it’s the same fam...
...hat. At the museum — I thought a lot about Delacroix. Why? Because in front of Hals, in front of R...
in note 25:
See for this description of Delacroix, derived from Jean Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon te...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in note 18:
...d used the term in connection with Corot and Delacroix. See Van Uitert 1966-1967, p. 113. Cf. in thi...
in translation:
...urist among the colourists, a colourist like Veronese, like Rubens, like Delacroix, like Velázquez.
Delacroix — called them rests, used them as such. You mustn’t be prejudiced against them, because...
But how fine what Silvestre says about Delacroix is — that he took an accidental tone on his palett...
...r like this look light in the painting, what Delacroix said — that Veronese could paint a blonde, ...
...od, are you right? I think not. For — then Delacroix’s Dante, say, the Zandvoort fisherman, say,...
... But you’ll discover it eventually through Delacroix and others of that period. Tell me — have y...
in note 28:
... the concept from Charles Blanc’s essay on Delacroix in Les artistes de mon temps – he quoted th...
in note 24:
See for The barque of Dante by Delacroix: letter 535, n. 19.
in note 23:
Van Gogh copied this anecdote of Delacroix’s about Veronese (taken from Blanc’s Les artistes de m...
in note 22:
...��This playing with light became a theme for Delacroix, the gymnastics of coloured composition. Taki...
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:
... quotation from Blanc’s Les artistes de mon temps with regard to Delacroix: see letter 536, n. 20.
in translation:
Jules Dupré is like Delacroix in landscape, for what enormous diversity of mood he expressed in symp...
... interesting, and with something so powerful and dramatic. Yes, he is indeed a brother to Delacroix.
...he ones who don’t do it in the local colour — that was what Blanc and Delacroix discussed once.
Delacroix, Millet, Corot, Dupré, Daubigny, Breton, 30 more names, do they not form the heart of this...
538 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 3 or Wednesday, 4 November 1885.
in note 12:
...ts français et étrangers Silvestre said of Delacroix: ‘He worries terribly about his pictures an...
in translation:
...utely certain that the laws of colour, which Delacroix first ordered and put forward in full and in ...
...ced it in the Fodor. Yet Silvestre says that Delacroix drenched his paintings with oil — ‘bathed...
547 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, Monday, 14 December 1885.
in translation:
What I find so fine about Delacroix is precisely that he reveals the liveliness of things, and the ex...
...d models for painters, for Scheffer, Gigoux, Delacroix, she says for instance, and to another one wh...
552 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, between Tuesday, 12 and Saturday, 16 January 1886.
in translation:
... emotion that one would find in a Rembrandt or in a painting by Delacroix or in a drawing by Millet.
And Delacroix tried again to get people to believe in the symphonies of the colours. And in vain, one...
555 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 28 January 1886.
in translation:
...s, too, and he studied them for that very thing — afterwards Delacroix did the same as Géricault.
...ior modelling, are flat compared with Géricault and Delacroix, and who don’t go beyond the paint.
556 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Friday, 29 January 1886.
in translation:
..., look at Balzac, Zola, De Goncourt. Look at Delacroix. All the same — setting up a studio i...
557 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886.
in note 7:
...ve meant ‘maïtresse’ in this context of Delacroix looking after himself. There is not the sligh...
in note 6:
...�) is derived from what Silvestre said about Delacroix in Histoire des artistes vivants français et...
in translation:
I know that Delacroix said that he had discovered painting when he had neither teeth nor breath left....
...first. For it can’t be helped — didn’t Delacroix and Corot and Millet — particularly later �...
...’s very strange indeed that Géricault and Delacroix both knew them more intimately than David, sa...
559 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Saturday, 6 February 1886.
in note 5:
...aining company than his. The exhibition of Eug. Delacroix’s paintings is an inexhaustible subject o...
in translation:
... for art — decline, if you will, after the Delacroix, Corots, Millets, Duprés, Troyons, Bretons, ...
... didn’t see the Cent chefs d’oeuvre, the Delacroix exhibition and the Meissonier exhibition. But...
560 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 9 February 1886.
in translation:
...��t been precisely happy, in the same way as Delacroix said about himself, I haven’t been happy at...
...ho have loved much — touched and — as Silvestre says of Delacroix — thus died, almost smiling.
Could one say of Delacroix ‘he worked on the renewal of passion’? Perhaps so. Anyway — do write...
561 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 11 February 1886.
in note 1:
Derived from an anecdote about Delacroix in Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: see lett...
562 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Sunday, 14 February 1886.
in translation:
...’t doubt fellows like Corot and Millet and Delacroix. And I think that in moments when one doesn�...
569 To Horace Mann Livens, Paris, September or October 1886.
in translation:
There is much to be seen here – for instance Delacroix to name only one master.Delacroix
...is slow here, the great dealers sell Millet, Delacroix, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, a few other masters...
575 To Emile Bernard. Paris, about December 1887.
in translation:
...es Russes, and I’ll also let you have the article on E. Delacroix that I’ve spoken to you about.
589 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 25 March 1888.
in translation:
...ced tones. And that you have to go straight to Delacroix to find such an orchestration of colours.
595 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 11 April 1888.
in note 14:
Van Gogh had read about Delacroix’s bold use of lemon yellow and Prussian blue in his Pietà in Sil...
in translation:
...ve and Israëls. But it’s found in that of Delacroix, who had a passion for the two colours most d...
597 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 13 April 1888.
in note 8:
...n the letter, the following note made by Eugène Delacroix in his Journal of 23 April 1854: ‘The f...
598 To John Peter Russell. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.
in note 11:
After his trip to Morocco in 1832 Delacroix painted predominantly ‘southern’ – African, Greek a...
in translation:
...south in a true colourists way parralel with Delacroix’ conception of the south. Viz. that the sou...
624 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 12 or Wednesday, 13 June 1888.
in translation:
...elightful colour which is exceedingly harmonious, with broken tones à la Delacroix. Delacroix
626 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between Saturday, 16 and Wednesday, 20 June 1888.
in translation:
..., in modern art history there are names like Delacroix, Millet, Corot, Courbet, Daumier, who dominat...
632 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Tuesday, 26 June 1888.
in note 3:
... Gogh is thinking here in the first place of Delacroix’s painting Christ asleep during the tempest...
in note 12:
Eugène Delacroix, Christ asleep during the tempest, c. 1853 (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Ar...
in note 11:
...he changes here on what Silvestre said about Delacroix – ‘neither teeth nor breath’ – which ...
in translation:
...as been painted — as I feel it — only by Delacroix and by Rembrandt........ And then Millet has ...
...ea, rising, rising all the way up to the top of the frame. Ah — the brilliant sketch. E. Delacroix
...ember John the Baptist by Puvis? I find it marvellous and as much the MAGICIAN as Eugène Delacroix.
634 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Thursday, 28 June 1888.
in note 8:
Eugène Delacroix’s decorations in the ‘Galerie d’Apollon’, 1850-1851 (Paris, Musée du Louvr...
in note 5:
See letter 632, n. 12, for Delacroix’s Christ asleep during the tempest.
in translation:
...tion remains this — Christ’s boat by Eugène Delacroix and Millet’s sower are of entirely di...
... between yellow and purple for example (like Delacroix’s Apollo ceiling, which is precisely yellow...
635 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 1 July 1888.
in translation:
...hat he balanced, certainly overtaxed his brain doing that work, as did Delacroix and Richard Wagner.
...gkind too — being physically stronger than Delacroix and suffering more physically (Delacroix was ...
649 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
in note 18:
Van Gogh was probably thinking of Delacroix’s Christ asleep during the tempest, which he had also w...
in translation:
Delacroix paints a Christ using an unexpected light lemon note, this colourful and luminous note in t...
Rembrandt works with values in the same way as Delacroix with colours.
Now, there’s a gulf between the method of Delacroix and Rembrandt and that of all the rest of relig...
651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
in translation:
... better than many Frenchmen themselves, felt Delacroix and Zola, for whom my sincere and frank admir...
...ad a fairly complete idea of Rembrandt. One, Delacroix, proceeds by way of colours, the other, Rembr...
...mbrace the whole epoch that they paint. When Delacroix paints humanity, life in general instead of a...
Thus died — almost smiling — Eugène Delacroix, a painter of high breeding — who had a sun in h...
655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
in note 17:
For Delacroix’s ‘no teeth nor breath’ (ni dents, ni souffle), taken from Silvestre’s Histoire...
in translation:
Delacroix, ah, him — ‘I,’ he said, ‘found painting when I had no teeth nor breath left’. An...
656 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 6 August 1888.
in translation:
...rks. Yes, artists perpetuate themselves, passing on the torch, Delacroix to the Impressionists, &c.
...uld a consumptive or nervous cab-horse, like Delacroix or De Goncourt, with broad ideas though, be a...
...rs were mad, but also Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Delacroix and all the good, narrow-minded old ladies li...
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in translation:
...graphs to be had, Daumiers, reproductions of Delacroix, Decamps, Diaz, Rousseau, Dupré, &c. Soon, t...
... do the things that the previous generation, Delacroix, Millet, Rousseau, Diaz, Monticelli, Isabey, ...
660 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 13 August 1888.
in translation:
...traordinary; her expression was like that of Delacroix. And a strange, primitive bearing. I take thi...
663 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 18 August 1888.
in note 10:
... work is something Van Gogh also got from Corot and Delacroix; see letters 396 and 765 respectively.
in translation:
...t with my way of doing things, which was fertilized more by the ideas of Delacroix than by theirs.
...he one 99 years ago. It was something out of Delacroix, out of Daumier, out of the old Dutch paintin...
667 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888.
in translation:
...Millet, a Jules Breton, a Daubigny, a Corot is. You can keep the rest. Except — Delacroix.
...t another very different manner, the work of Delacroix, of Millet, of Corot, that remains and the ch...
673 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 3 September 1888.
in note 4:
See letter 632, n. 12, for Delacroix, Christ asleep during the tempest.
in note 18:
Delacroix made two paintings of the imprisoned poet Torquato Tasso entitled Tasso in the Hospital of ...
in translation:
...ome so in his paintings, I believe. He likes Delacroix, and we talked a lot about Delacroix yesterda...
But this would be more in tune with what Eugène Delacroix was looking for and found in his Tasso in ...
676 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 8 September 1888.
in note 5:
...uveaux, with which Van Gogh was familiar. On Delacroix’s landscapes he wrote: ‘The outside world...
in note 15:
...t auction house; among the works on show was Delacroix’s Christ asleep during the tempest. The sal...
in translation:
When Paul Mantz saw Delacroix’s violent and exalted sketch, Christ’s boat, at the exhibition that...
677 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 September 1888.
in translation:
And some Delacroixs too, ordinary lithographs by modern artists.
682 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in note 6:
In 1832 Delacroix travelled with a French government delegation to the Sultanate of Morocco. See John...
in translation:
.... Why did the greatest colourist of all, Eugène Delacroix, judge it indispensable to go to the sout...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in translation:
...e me has talked about suggestive colour. But Delacroix and Monticelli, while not talking about it, d...
...mits you to nothing. And being there as a pal, I don’t have to state my position.Eugène Delacroix
684 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Wednesday, 19 and Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
in translation:
...ing for me, having gained the experience, is Delacroix and Monticelli, those painters who nowadays a...
686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.
in note 3:
...y Célestin François Nanteuil-Leboeuf after Delacroix’s Pietà is in the Van Goghs’ estate. Ill...
in translation:
...ints in the studio, and the Daumiers and the Delacroixs and the Géricault. If you come across the D...
...Paris that I would have found Monticelli and Delacroix so true. It’s only now, after months and mo...
...g that’s as rich and superb as Daumier and Delacroix. Certainly, at the prices Monticellis are at,...
687 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
in note 12:
Van Gogh must have got the notion that Delacroix used large quantities of Prussian blue from Silvestr...
in translation:
Delacroix swore by that vulgar blue, and used it a lot.
709 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 21 October 1888.
in translation:
...painters, like Delaroche and Delort, are there not also good ones, like E. Delacroix and Meissonier?
722 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 21 November 1888.
in translation:
Have they read Silvestre’s book on E. Delacroix, and the article on colour in C. Blanc’s Grammair...
726 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 17 or Tuesday, 18 December 1888.
in note 2:
Eugène Delacroix, Alfred Bruyas, 1853 (Montpellier, Musée Fabre). Ill. 76.
in note 19:
Delacroix, Aline, the mulatto woman, 1821 (Montpellier, Musée Fabre). Ill. 72. Gauguin had made the ...
in note 10:
The museum had nine paintings by Delacroix, and a copy after his self-portrait by Andrieu. See cat. M...
in translation:
...m — there are many portraits of Bruyas, by Delacroix, by Ricard, by Courbet, by Cabanel, by Coutur...
...s, and this is all I’ll say to you: in the Delacroix portrait, he’s a gentleman with a beard, re...
...you could manage to get the lithograph after Delacroix’s ‘Tasso in the madhouse’ without great...
They have other Delacroixs there, a study of a mulatto woman (which Gauguin once copied), the Odalisq...
Gauguin and I talk a lot about Delacroix, Rembrandt &c.
... well, Rembrandt is above all a magician and Delacroix a man of God, of God’s thunder and bugger o...
...n that, for me, I saw in it a certain family or racial resemblance to Delacroix, or to him, Gauguin.
...I have been to see the portrait of Bruyas by Delacroix at Montpellier, for we must boldly believe th...
in note 21:
Delacroix, Daniel in the lions’ den, c. 1849-1850 (Montpellier, Musée Fabre). Ill. 67.
in note 20:
Delacroix, The odalisques, better known as Algerian women in their apartments, 1847-1849 (Montpellier...
732 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 January 1889.
in note 3:
...�e Fabre in Montpellier in mid-December. For Delacroix’s Alfred Bruyas in that museum, in which Vi...
in translation:
... that you’d seen the portrait of Bruyas by Delacroix and the whole museum at Montpellier where Gau...
... my instruction are all the reproductions of Delacroix’s paintings that one can still get in that ...
...r doctor who, in theory at least, knows what Delacroix and Puvis de Chavannes are all about, and who...
735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.
in note 10:
...n Gogh had earlier brought up the subject of Delacroix and complementary colours in connection with ...
in translation:
... the Impressionists, or at least believe in E. Delacroix, and then Tersteeg and you joining hands wou...
743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
in translation:
But doesn’t the antidote exist? In Delacroix, in Berlioz and Wagner? And really, our artistic madne...
763 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 28 April 1889.
in translation:
...But the olive tree is something else, it is, if you want to compare it to something, like Delacroix.
765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
in note 2:
...on Silvestre’s Documents nouveaux: ‘Yes, Delacroix was a great worker. He would get up at seven ...
in note 15:
Eugène Delacroix’s Algerian women in their apartments, 1847-1849 (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Ill. 2...
in note 14:
For Delacroix’s Algerian women in their apartments, see letter 726, n. 20.
in note 13:
On Delacroix’s Daniel in the lions’ den, see letter 726, n. 21.
in translation:
How right Delacroix was, who lived on bread and wine alone, and who succeeded in finding a way of lif...
.... But the inevitable question of money always remains – Delacroix had a private income. Corot too.
...intings fade like flowers – thus even some Delacroixs had suffered, the magnificent Daniel, the Od...
768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
in note 4:
...en about Puvis de Chavannes and Degas (not about Delacroix, as Vincent writes here). See letter 766.
in translation:
Ah, what you said about Puvis and Delacroix is darned right, those fellows have well demonstrated wha...
...the Impressionists, even when they go astray. But Delacroix was already more complete than they are.
For after all in figures, Delacroix, Millet, several sculptors have otherwise done better than the Im...
...ur time, Millet, Breton, Israëls, Whistler, Delacroix, Leys. And be fully assured that I myself am ...
...album), the Pietà and the good Samaritan by Delacroix, and Meissonier’s reader, then two large re...
in note 22:
Delacroix made two paintings of The Good Samaritan: one dating from 1849-1851 (private collection) an...
in note 21:
For Delacroix’s Pietà, see letter 686, n. 3.
772 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 9 May 1889.
in translation:
...ers, have tried to get out of Paris. But Eugène Delacroix, for example, it’s difficult to portray...
777 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, between about Friday, 31 May and about Thursday, 6 June 1889.
in translation:
...n ever in the eternal youth of the school of Delacroix, Millet, Rousseau, Dupré, Daubigny, just as ...
782 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.
in translation:
...y is what proves that they’re less skilled fighters than other artists like Delacroix and Courbet.
...ious ideas, no. However, by going the way of Delacroix, more than it seems, by colour and a more det...
783 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 25 June 1889.
in translation:
... the light is mysterious, and Monticelli and Delacroix felt that. Then Pissarro used to talk about i...
798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.
in translation:
If you get opportunities for lithographs of Delacroix, Rousseau, Diaz &c., ancient and modern artists...
...ct finds. Certainly I know, Daumier, Millet, Delacroix have another way of drawing – but Meissonie...
The only serene portraits are the Delacroix and the Ricard.
in note 21:
For Delacroix’s Alfred Bruyas, see letter 726, n. 2.
800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
in note 11:
For Delacroix’s ‘neither teeth nor breath’, taken from Silvestre, see letter 557, n. 6.
in note 35:
For Delacroix’s Algerian women in their apartments, see letter 726, n. 20. For the version in the L...
in note 34:
For Delacroix’s Daniel in the lions’ den, see letter 726, n. 21.
in note 33:
For the Alfred Bruyas by Delacroix and Alfred Bruyas by Ricard, see letter 726, nn. 2 and 3.
in translation:
... something will happen to me like the thing E. Delacroix speaks of – “I found painting when I had...
...do last well, that was darned true. Let’s leave aside the figure painting of Delacroix, of Millet.
... spinner – were the portraits of Bruyas by Delacroix and by Ricard, then the Daniel, Delacroix’s...
in note 28:
Silvestre wrote this about the death of Delacroix in Eugène Delacroix. Documents nouveaux; see lette...
801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
in note 8:
For Delacroix’s Daniel in the lions’ den, Algerian women in their apartments, Alfred Bruyas and A...
in note 6:
For the lithograph by Nanteuil-Leboeuf after Delacroix’s Pietà, see letter 686, n. 3.
in note 3:
For Delacroix’s ‘neither teeth nor breath’, derived from Silvestre’s Histoire des artistes vi...
in translation:
...t one couldn’t understand the paintings of Delacroix from the point of view of execution, techniqu...
...eeling that I always think of those words of Delacroix that you know, that he found painting when he...
...ortune happened to me – that lithograph of Delacroix, the Pietà, with other sheets had fallen int...
...lear and my fingers so sure that I drew that Delacroix Pietà without taking a single measurement, t...
...the value and originality and superiority of Delacroix, of Millet, for example, then I make a point ...
And then do you know why the paintings of E. Delacroix – the religious and historical paintings, Ch...
..., the good people among artists who say that Delacroix is not of the true orient! Look, is the true ...
in note 28:
Delacroix, Jewish wedding in Morocco, 1837-1841? (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Ill. 73.
in note 21:
Eugène Delacroix, Pietà, c. 1850 (Oslo, Nasjonalgalleriet). Ill. 3062. Van Gogh’s mention of Dela...
...lleriet). Ill. 3062. Van Gogh’s mention of Delacroix’s The crusaders must refer to Delacroix’s...
in note 20:
For Delacroix’s Christ asleep during the tempest, see letter 632, n. 12.
804 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.
in note 9:
...boudoir of the Romanian queen. Commenting on Delacroix’s painting, Loti said: ‘When she was seat...
in note 5:
...ter the lithograph by Nanteuil-Leboeuf after Delacroix’s Pietà (for the lithograph, see letter 68...
in translation:
...h like seeing my own paintings in my bedroom, so I’ve copied one by Delacroix and a few by Millet.
The Delacroix is a Pietà, i.e. a dead Christ with the Mater Dolorosa. The exhausted corpse lies bent...
...re she makes paintings, Loti says that he saw this Delacroix canvas there, which struck him greatly.
...f a sketch of it to give you an idea of what Delacroix is. This little copy of course has no value f...
...�ll send to you and Mother, probably a wheatfield and an olive grove with that copy after Delacroix.
in note 21:
...d and an olive grove, but not the copy after Delacroix. See letter 824. F 757 did eventually come in...
805 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.
in note 4:
...ter the lithograph by Nanteuil-Leboeuf after Delacroix’s Pietà. For the lithograph, see letter 68...
in note 11:
...thograph The Good Samaritan by Laurens after Delacroix, see letter 768, n. 22. Van Gogh made the pai...
in translation:
...when I was making that copy of the Pietà by Delacroix I discovered where that canvas has gone. It b...
...m, that absolutely doesn’t bother me at all. I’m going to copy Delacroix’s Good Samaritan too.
I place the black-and-white by Delacroix or Millet or after them in front of me as a subject. And the...
...ust refresh my memory by very close study of Delacroix, Millet. Then I’ll try to sort out my drawi...
When one thinks of Millet and Delacroix, what a contrast. Delacroix without a wife, without children,...
816 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Sunday, 3 November 1889.
in note 16:
Theo had written about Delacroix’s flower studies (see letter 781, n. 1).
in note 15:
...cannot be ascertained which work or works by Delacroix Van Gogh is referring to here. Two paintings ...
in note 14:
Eugène Delacroix, Jacob wrestling with the angel, 1855-1861, a mural in the Church of Saint-Sulpice ...
in translation:
...glement of the masses. Thus, do you remember Delacroix’s landscape, Jacob’s struggle with the an...
822 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in translation:
...sations common to us all. But, you’ll say, Delacroix — yes, Delacroix — but then you’d have ...
823 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in translation:
...tes did this much better, and then Puvis and Delacroix are much healthier than those Pre-Raphaelites...
839 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 13 January 1890.
in translation:
...otto, this painter who would be as modern as Delacroix if he weren’t primitive, and who’s so dif...
...entury there have been painters like Millet, Delacroix, Meissonier, who cannot be surpassed. For alt...
850 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 1 February 1890.
in note 15:
This was presumably a photograph of Delacroix’s painting The education of the Virgin, which Van Gog...
853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.
in translation:
...rist who comes so straight and directly from Delacroix; and yet it is likely, in my opinion, that Mo...
...ay so many bad things and which nevertheless Delacroix used so much. I think that once the Prussian ...
in note 22:
On Delacroix’s use of Prussian blue, see letter 595, n. 14.
854 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 12 February 1890.
in note 10:
For Delacroix’s The Good Samaritan, see letter 768, n. 22. Van Gogh did not carry out his plan unti...
in translation:
In the next few days I hope to begin on Delacroix’s Good Samaritan and Millet’s Woodcutter.
856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
in note 7:
...auseries sur les artistes de mon temps about Delacroix, who drew figures after Raphael every day: �...
in translation:
...iotto, that Angelico painted on their knees, Delacroix so utterly sad and moved... almost smiling. W...
866 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 2 May 1890.
in translation:
...e freshness. I’ve also attempted a copy of Delacroix’s Good Samaritan. I think from a note in Le...
RM21 To Joseph Jacob Isaäcson. Auvers-sur-Oise, Sunday, 25 May 1890.
in translation:
... sentiment, parallel, equivalent to those of Delacroix, Puvis de Chavannes – and that Impressionis...
...vis de Chavannes as having the importance of Delacroix, anyway that he has equal worth with the peop...
893 To Theo van Gogh. Auvers-sur Oise, Saturday, 28 June 1890.
in note 7:
Delacroix, George Sand wearing a man’s suit, 1834 (private collection). The first print made after ...
in note 6:
For Delacroix’s The education of the Virgin, see letter 781, n. 2.
in translation:
... ears. And I thought again of that canvas by Delacroix, Maternal upbringing. For in the expressions ...

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