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120 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 12 June 1877.
in note 8:
... Naturalis historia, xxxv, 36, 84. In letter 162, Van Gogh says that he got the saying from Gavarni.
160 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Monday, 1 November 1880.
in note 8:
Gavarni, l’homme & l’oeuvreGavarni
162 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, January 1881.
in translation:
...sometimes of terrifying truthfulness, such as Gavarni, Henry Monnier, Daumier, De Lemud, Henri Pille...
...to do portraits. But that depends on working hard; not a day without a line, as Gavarni used to say.
in note 8:
Paul Gavarni was the pseudonym of the French draughtsman, caricaturist and writer Hippolyte Sulpice G...
...tsman, caricaturist and writer Hippolyte Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier. The phrase Van Gogh quotes has...
174 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Wednesday, 12 October 1881.
in translation:
...pt my thanks for returning it. In my opinion, Gavarni is a very great artist, and certainly very int...
in note 3:
The book quotes a letter written by Gavarni to an Englishman, Ward, in which Gavarni says that he wan...
in note 2:
...s said to him. Thackeray invited him to dine, Gavarni in turn invited him for the following day, in ...
in note 1:
...inted several times). This thick biography of Gavarni contains numerous quotations from his letters ...
206 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 25 February 1882.
in translation:
To be true is what remains, says Gavarni. One may be caught up for a time in petty pecuniary vexation...
in note 6:
...Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s biography of Gavarni. See Goncourt 1873, p. 67. Gavarni’s La masc...
211 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
in translation:
...rivate life of someone whose work is above criticism. Degroux is a master like Millet, like Gavarni.
C.M. had certainly not viewed Gavarni, at least, as a master.
212 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 16 and on or about Monday, 20 March 1882.
in translation:
...sing sight of something. I’d sooner Goya or Gavarni, then, even though they both say ‘Nada’. A...
in note 7:
... explains that even though he places Goya and Gavarni above the previously mentioned artists, the wa...
214 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 2 April 1882.
in translation:
...discussing what they call ‘illustrators’, Gavarni, for instance, or Herkomer!! This NOT keeping ...
216 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 10 April 1882.
in note 4:
...ng in a simple grey mount on a remark made by Gavarni, who in 1852 had advised an Englishman, to who...
235 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 3 June 1882.
in note 23:
There are 25 prints by Paul Gavarni in the estate.
in translation:
1 ,, Gavarni, supplemented with lithographs, but no rare ones
260 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 3 September 1882.
in translation:
I’m glad you’re reading the book about Gavarni. I thought it very interesting, and have become do...
263 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, between about Tuesday, 12 and Sunday, 17 September 1882.
in translation:
...ple, Renouard or Lançon or Doré or Morin or Gavarni or Du Maurier or C. Keene or Howard Pyle or Ho...
267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
in translation:
...rd, the age of Balzac and Dickens, the age of Gavarni and Millet, is now far behind us. For while it...
...r me there’s still the smell of the days of Gavarni and of Balzac and V. Hugo in these grubby wood...
274 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 22 October 1882.
in translation:
...we have strayed in our age from la bohème of Gavarni’s day! It seems to me that things were a lit...
in note 8:
Van Gogh was familiar with Gavarni’s combination of a free way of life and a successful career as a...
276 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in translation:
...ng a dung-heap. When one reads in the book on Gavarni, about his drawings, that ‘he knocked off up...
277 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in translation:
... that you thought Daumier more beautiful than Gavarni, and I took Gavarni’s side and spoke to you ...
278 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
in translation:
... for the great draughtsmen of both the age of Gavarni and of the present day increases the better ac...
...tinue to find them even more sympathetic than Gavarni and Daumier, is that, while the latter seem to...
280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
in translation:
...are no more. Think further back, I say, Leys, Gavarni, Degroux (to name just a few), or still furthe...
281 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 7 November 1882.
in translation:
Yesterday evening I looked again at the Gavarnis with renewed pleasure.
294 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Wednesday, 13 and about Monday, 18 December 1882.
in translation:
...go said: religions pass, but God remains. And Gavarni also said a fine thing: the point is to grasp ...
in note 7:
...ot happening through what is happening ... If Gavarni is not merely a fine draughtsman, if he is a g...
295 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 22 December 1882.
in translation:
...ther see an ordinary lithograph by Daumier or Gavarni or Lemud. Anyway, a steady drawing hand is req...
297 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 31 December 1882 and Tuesday, 2 January 1883.
in translation:
...such as Lemud, Daumier, Lançon. Others, like Gavarni and Bodmer, are more reminiscent of the piano....
302 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 18 January 1883.
in translation:
...s is La mascarade humaine, 100 lithographs by Gavarni. I have them but do you? And the Jew has other...
309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in note 25:
...court brothers recorded this pronouncement by Gavarni in Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre as follows...
in translation:
...s for the woman herself, do you remember what Gavarni said? ‘There is an insupportable, silly and ...
331 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 21 March 1883.
in translation:
Gavarni once came up with one, namely this. The entrance of a house with the announcement ‘Children...
in note 12:
...of the prints in the series ‘Bohèmes’ in Gavarni’s La mascarade humaine with the text ‘LOST...
333 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 29 March and Sunday, 1 April 1883.
in translation:
...ome respects that’s entirely different from Gavarni’s lithography. With Bodmer they are prints f...
356 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 22 June 1883.
in translation:
...u know what I thought of lately? That book on Gavarni that you have. From that I remembered how by h...
in note 18:
...d and Jules de Goncourt write at length about Gavarni’s time in London (Goncourt 1873, pp. 276-322...
359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.
in translation:
...pes, Christmas time, very cosy, two important Gavarnis of the highest quality, Porters of the market...
in note 34:
Paul Gavarni, Janvier. Les étrennes (January. The New Year presents), 1839. Above the print it says ...
in note 33:
Paul Gavarni, Dames de la Halle (Women of the market), in The Illustrated London News 26 (9 June 1855...
in note 32:
Paul Gavarni, Forts de la Halle (Porters of the market), in The Illustrated London News 26 (9 June 18...
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in translation:
...t know what makes one love them after all’. Gavarni was serious when he said: I felt something die...
in note 11:
...oeuvre. It occurs in a paragraph dealing with Gavarni’s many amorous adventures: ‘However, he co...
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 note 4:
...s quotation is taken from the introduction to Gavarni’s La mascarade humaine: see letter 294, n.7....
534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
in translation:
...ussen, the original fellows of that period 40 years back. Rochussen has a vitality like Gavarni’s.
535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
in note 26:
...ld. He features in twenty satirical prints in Gavarni’s La mascarade humaine (Gavarni 1881, pp. 77...
555 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 28 January 1886.
in translation:
...teacher. And I tell you, it was the only drawing that was generously done, like Tassaert or Gavarni.
600 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 20 April 1888.
in translation:
...sn’t Daumier on show at the Beaux-Arts, and Gavarni? Bravo as far as Daumier’s concerned, not th...
in note 10:
Work by Daumier and Gavarni was on show in the exhibition of caricatures in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts ...
626 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between Saturday, 16 and Wednesday, 20 June 1888.
in translation:
...ndifferent; for instance, there’s a copy of Gavarni’s Mascarade humaine, a book Anatomy for arti...
in note 10:
Van Gogh had owned Gavarni’s La mascarade humaine since 1882 and repeatedly quoted from it in his l...
642 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in translation:
... us some more wood engravings and things like Gavarni’s La masquerade humaine, 100 lithographs, th...
in note 12:
...in the Netherlands, see letter 626, n. 9. For Gavarni’s La mascarade humaine, see letter 626, n. 1...
768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
in note 15:
...can be traced to a caption on a lithograph by Gavarni, which mentions a certain Eugénie who is ‘t...

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