8 letters found

1. 158 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 24 September 1880.

   in note 3:

   ...Cours de dessin, see letter 136, n. 22. The books Tersteeg sent were most probably A. de Zahn, Esquisses anatomiques à l’usage des artistes pour servir aux études d’après nature et d’après l’antique (see letter 160, n. 2) and Guide de l’alphabet du dessin ou l’art d’apprendre et d’enseigner les principes rationnels du dessin d’après nature by Armand Théophile Cassagne. Paris 1880. This book, consisting of 43 lessons, contained much on perspective, and helped to dispel Van Gogh’s doubts when he started to draw (as he later wrote in April 1882). It was, in his view, a ‘comprehensible’ work; letter 214). See cat. Amsterdam 1996...

2. 214 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 2 April 1882.

   in note 2:

   ...to Armand Théophile Cassagne’s Guide de l’alphabet du dessin (1880), which he had possibly rece...

3. 235 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 3 June 1882.

   in note 10:

   ... was no doubt Armand Cassagne’s Guide de l’alphabet du dessin (1880) that put Van Gogh on the tr...

4. 238 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 9 June 1882.

   in note 2:

   ...n Gogh might be referring here to Guide de l’alphabet du dessin and Traité d’aquarelle by Arman...

5. 265 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 17 or Monday, 18 September 1882.

   in note 12:

   ...of the first chapter of Cassagne, Guide de l’alphabet du dessin: ‘The aim of this Method is, fir...

6. 637 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 8 or Monday, 9 July 1888.

   in note 12:

   For Cassagne’s Guide de l’alphabet du dessin see letter 214, n. 2. Van Gogh had mentioned it agai...

7. 657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.

   in note 20:

   ... buy the book in letter 630; see further nn. 9 and 10 to that letter.Guide de l’alphabet du dessin

8. 659 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 12 August 1888.

   in note 2:

   ...abet du dessin. Vincent had asked Theo to buy the book in letter 630.Guide de l’alphabet du dessin

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