44 letters found
- 017 To Theo van Gogh. London, beginning of January 1874.
- in translation:
Leys, Tissot, Lagye, Boughton, Millais, Thijs Maris, Degroux, De Braekeleer Jr.
- 129 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 4 September 1877.
- in note 40:
...hemes in the lithographs and paintings of Charles Degroux, see exhib. cat. Ypres 1995 and letter 273...
- in translation:
...show you all kinds of things here. I think of Degroux so often in the Jewish quarter and also in oth...
- 143 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 3 April 1878.
- in note 20:
A work by Degroux titled Apothecary has not been traced. Perhaps Van Gogh is referring to the Study f...
- in note 18:
Van Gogh’s mention of Charles Degroux’s The conscript no doubt refers to The conscript’s return...
- in note 16:
Charles Degroux, Saying grace>, c. 1861 (Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts). Ill. 135. There we...
- in translation:
...imes of the day by Millet, or Saying grace by Degroux, or Brion, or The conscript by Degroux (or els...
- 148 To Theo van Gogh. Laken, on or about Wednesday, 13 and Friday, 15 or Saturday, 16 November 1878.
- in note 15:
The works exhibited by Charles Degroux were Franciscus Junius secretly preaching the Reformation at A...
- in note 12:
Three versions are known of Charles Degroux’s The paupers’ pew: a painting of 1854 (Brussels, Mus...
- in translation:
...r rather group of poor people drawn by master Degroux in his paupers’ pew. Write and tell me if yo...
... the museum together, especially the works by Degroux and Leys and so many other remarkable painting...
...black with white caps reminiscent of those by Degroux. There are also places here — as there are e...
- 162 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, January 1881.
- in translation:
...é (in his Londres, for example), A. Lançon, Degroux, Félicien Rops &c. &c. have drawn with such m...
- 164 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Saturday, 2 April 1881.
- in note 6:
Charles Degroux, The drunkard (Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts). Ill. 139. This watercolour â...
- in note 5:
Charles Degroux, The conscript’s departure, c. 1869-1870 (Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts)....
- in translation:
... who should know better — do at the work of Degroux. I saw 2 things by Degroux this week that I di...
- 211 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
- in note 3:
A year after Degroux’s death Emile Leclerq described the artist as a solitary man who had turned hi...
- in translation:
... again because I happened to mention the name Degroux in connection with expression. C.M. suddenly a...
...lly can’t let that be said about good père Degroux. So I replied, it has always seemed to me that...
- 228 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 16 May 1882.
- in note 13:
For Charles Degroux’s The paupers’ pew, see letter 148, n. 12.
- in note 10:
...lar denigrating remark by Uncle Cor about Charles Degroux, and would do so again shortly afterwards:...
- in translation:
...H.G.T. and the clergymen. But C.M. also calls Degroux a common fellow, so what is C.M.? In future Iâ...
...e diggers by Millet and The paupers’ pew by Degroux and then H.G.T. seems so small, so negligible,...
- 236 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Tuesday, 6 June 1882.
- in translation:
...lso informed me with considerable aplomb that Degroux was in fact a bad person. You will understand ...
- 245 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 July 1882.
- in note 8:
For Charles Degroux, The paupers’ pew, see letter 148, n. 12.
- in translation:
...ael, and splendid, big wood engravings by Herkomer and Frank Holl and The paupers’ pew by Degroux.
- 258 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 20 August 1882.
- in translation:
...nest one could imagine by Millet, Israëls or Degroux. Above the landscape a plain grey sky with a l...
- 260 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 3 September 1882.
- in note 8:
For this unfinished painting, see The conscript’s departure by Charles Degroux: letter 164, n. 5.
- in translation:
...black, yellow, blue, brown, grey. It was very Degroux-like, an effect similar, for example, to that ...
- 267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
- in translation:
...a Degroux. I’m very glad to be able to send you this print. The Daumiers are becoming rare.Degroux
- 270 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 1 October 1882.
- in note 7:
...may have been influenced by a print after Charles Degroux’s The paupers’ pew which he had: see l...
- 273 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 22 October 1882.
- in note 36:
For Charles Degroux, Rops and Uylenspiegel, see letter 277.
- in translation:
In Belgium at one time, Félicien Rops and Degroux, among others, drew beautiful types in a magazine ...
- 276 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 29 October 1882.
- in note 15:
For Charles Degroux, Saying grace, see letter 143, n. 16.
- in translation:
...ther he has criticisms of the Saying grace by Degroux and the Last Supper by L. da Vinci, in which c...
- 277 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 October 1882.
- in note 14:
In the period January 1857-July 1857, Charles Degroux provided twelve illustrations with several Daum...
- in translation:
...ut this? Do you still remember the figures by Degroux from the Uylenspiegel that I had in the past b...
- 278 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
- in note 10:
Jules or Emile Adélard Breton, Charles Degroux and Jozef Israëls.
- in translation:
... the former, like such men as Millet, Breton, Degroux and Israëls, choose subjects which — while ...
- 279 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
- in note 20:
...ticularly at the beginning of his career, Charles Degroux was fiercely criticized for his realistic ...
- in translation:
If you knew what Degroux, for example, has endured by way of criticism and malice, you would be aston...
- 280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
- in translation:
...re. Think further back, I say, Leys, Gavarni, Degroux (to name just a few), or still further, Ingres...
- 281 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 7 November 1882.
- in translation:
...h staff. I talked to them about the prints by Degroux and Rops and they said, yes, but these days th...
- 288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
- in note 23:
Jozef Israëls, Jules or Emile Adélard Breton and Charles Degroux.
- in translation:
...y part, think of Millet, of Israëls, Breton, Degroux — so many others, Herkomer among them — I ...
- 291 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Monday, 4 and Saturday, 9 December 1882.
- in translation:
...p like Gustave Brion has left something good, Degroux, for instance, too. If there were many more li...
- 298 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 3 January 1883.
- in translation:
And that is the direct opposite of the sombre, noble quality of Brion, of Degroux, Israëls &c.
- 307 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 4 February 1883.
- in translation:
... you’ve found. I’d very much like to see some of them, particularly Degroux and Lançon. Degroux
- 309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
- in note 22:
Several works by Charles Degroux may be the one referred to: Een winters tafereel of De koffietrommel...
- in translation:
...e’s an opportunity, I’d like to know what the subject is of Degroux, Winter in Brussels. Degroux
- 310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
- in translation:
... something similar in studies and drawings by Degroux. Perhaps Lhermitte is another white-hot one. A...
- 318 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 20 or Wednesday, 21 February 1883.
- in translation:
...t found expression in, for instance, Leys and Degroux (sometimes) and Lagye and De Vriendt, Henri Pi...
- 333 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 29 March and Sunday, 1 April 1883.
- in translation:
...a of his work. It reminded me straightaway of Degroux and Legros, for example. There must undoubtedl...
- 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:
...acred lamp is still burning’. If I think of Degroux, say, or what you sometimes wrote to me of Dau...
- 387 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Sunday, 16 September 1883.
- in translation:
... the freight railway, a fellow with something Degroux-like about him, a face that sometimes takes on...
- 388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
- in note 21:
See for this reference to Charles Degroux: letter 211.
- in translation:
...or example, that C.M. certainly believes that Degroux was a bad man, in which, however sure he is in...
- 450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
- in translation:
...rue or superfluous? No. The same with Israëls, too — with Degroux, too (Degroux was very simple).
- 476 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 December 1884.
- in note 4:
See for Charles Degroux, Saying grace: letter 143, n. 16.
- in translation:
...at respect and sympathy for the work of père Degroux? I think about him more than ever these days. ...
Degroux is as little appreciated as Thijs Maris, for instance. He’s different, however — but — ...
...several new names of people who are hammering again on the same old anvil on which Degroux hammered.
If Degroux — at that time — had chosen to dress his Brabant characters in medieval costumes, he w...
- 493 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 13 April 1885.
- in note 11:
In 1863 Charles Degroux was commissioned by the Belgian State to decorate the monumental Lakenhal (Cl...
- in translation:
...ces of him! — which he also did well, but how much better he was when he could be himself.)Degroux
...n’t appreciated as fully as he deserves — Degroux is one of the good Milletesque masters. But ev...
- 497 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 30 April 1885.
- in translation:
...t life serious things to think about. Millet, Degroux, so many others, have set examples of characte...
- 498 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, early May 1885.
- in translation:
For my part, I particularly need to see the work of Degroux, Meunier and a few other Belgians again.
- 499 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 2 May 1885.
- in note 10:
Van Gogh would have been thinking here of Charles Degroux, whom he had talked about in letters 493 an...
- 502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
- in translation:
...assed here in Holland but, it seems to me, will remain the master. And in Belgium, Leys and Degroux.
- 547 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, Monday, 14 December 1885.
- in translation:
...ntrasting colours. I also saw an old study by Degroux, Woman by a cradle, something like an old Isra...
- 604 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.
- in note 14:
... description of a work he had seen in Brussels. For Degroux’s Saying grace, see letter 143, n. 16.
- in translation:
Was the Degroux you speak of the same subject as the one in the museum in Brussels, the Saying grace?...
- 673 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 3 September 1888.
- in note 23:
For Degroux’s Saying grace, see letter 143, n. 16. For the (destroyed?) oil sketch from Eugène and...
- in translation:
The Belgian said that at home they have a Degroux, the sketch for Saying grace in the Brussels museum...
- 694 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
- in note 15:
... Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps by Jean Gigoux, which Van Gogh had read. Gigoux wrote: ‘G...
1 essay item found
- About this edition / Note on the translation
- in about_4:
...ecomes Houses of Parliament, De Groux becomes Degroux. Proper names are anglicized where appropriate...
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29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Charles Camille Auguste Degroux (1825-1870) Belgian artist
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