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017 To Theo van Gogh. London, beginning of January 1874.
in translation:
...you like Millet, Jacque, Schreyer, Lambinet, Frans Hals &c., because – as Mauve says – ‘that’...
029 To Theo van Gogh. London, between Monday, 4 January and Friday, 5 March 1875.
in translation:
...ou can imagine the sentiment. 5 Ruisdaels, 1 Frans Hals, Van Dyck. A landscape with figures by Rubens...
in note 12:
Three works by Frans Hals were included in the exhibition.
130 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 7 September 1877.
in translation:
...hat he go to Haarlem to see the paintings by Frans Hals, and now he’s going there and not to Antwer...
in note 2:
...of and the Stadhuis, at which seven works by Frans Hals were on display: a canvas with the regents an...
267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
in translation:
... your collection. I saw splendid drawings by Frans Hals once. In this sheet I find something — in f...
in note 34:
...h may have seen drawings still attributed to Frans Hals at that time or reproductions after them some...
308 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 5 February 1883.
in translation:
...xpressed in, for example, the Hille Bobbe by Frans Hals or some heads by Rembrandt. Now, as for Heyer...
in note 3:
Frans Hals, Malle Babbe, c. 1633-1635 (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie). Ill. 151. The t...
310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in translation:
...on’t know). That’s also in some heads by Frans Hals, for example. It’s so subdued that it seems...
533 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 4 October 1885.
in translation:
Longing most of all for Rembrandt and Frans Hals, one day this week I’m going to the museum in Amst...
534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
in translation:
...als, very different in colour one from another, still all one family of grey — but wait!Frans Hals
...bout Millet’s sower,just as he wrote about Frans Hals — dedicating himself and surpassing himself...
...t’s better to think about Rembrandt, about Frans Hals, about Israëls, than about that respectable ...
in note 12:
Thoré wrote about the works of Frans Hals in the Rijksmuseum in Musées de la Hollande. He called hi...
in note 8:
Frans Hals, The merry drinker, c. 1628-1630. Ill. 150. Van Gogh borrowed the term ‘citron amorti’...
in note 7:
... At the time it was believed to be a work by Frans Hals, but is now thought to be a copy of the Hals ...
in note 4:
Frans Hals and Pieter Codde, The company of Captain Reynier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Michielsz. ...
535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
in translation:
... painted quickly. That these great masters like Hals, Rembrandt, Ruisdael — so many others — as f...
Above all I admired hands by Rembrandt and Hals — hands that lived, but were not finished in the se...
...ossible in one go. What a joy it is to see a Frans Hals like that — how very different it is from t...
Frans Hals’s yellow — call it what you will, dull lemon or fawn yellow — what’s it done with?...
...a lot about Delacroix. Why? Because in front of Hals, in front of Rembrandt, in front of Ruisdael and...
in note 15:
...f. letter 534, where Van Gogh also talked about Hals’s use of yellow. He borrowed the term ‘jaune...
in note 6:
...ogh most probably knew Unger’s etchings after Hals from Etsen naar Frans Hals door Prof. William Un...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in translation:
Listen — Frans Hals’s flesh colours are also earthy, that’s to say in the sense you know. At le...
...ly neutral complexion, earthy, pink, violetish, by contrast with his Frans Hals yellow leather suit.
...sombre things — well then — the faces are — very fair — extraordinarily fair, even for Hals.
Anyway — Frans Hals is a colourist among the colourists, a colourist like Veronese, like Rubens, li...
I think not. Frans Hals must have had twenty-seven blacks.
Rembrandt and Hals, didn’t they use black? And Velázquez??? Not just one, but twenty-seven blacks,...
in note 17:
...n in Les maîtres d’autrefois had also called Hals, Veronese, Rubens and Velázquez true colourists...
in note 16:
Frans Hals, Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, married in Haarlem on 25 April 1622 (Amst...
in note 15:
See for Frans Hals, The merry drinker: letter 534, n. 8.
in note 14:
...nt Cornelis Michielsz. Blaeuw (‘The meagre company’) by Hals and Codde: letter 534, nn. 4 and 6.
in note 13:
See for Frans Hals, The fool from the L. Dupper Wzn. Collection: letter 534, n. 7.
539 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 7 November 1885.
in translation:
...life and — painting. I’ve only just seen Frans Hals — well now, you know how I was full of it, ...
in note 19:
... visit to the Rijksmuseum, where he had studied Hals’s loose brushwork, Van Gogh wrote about it in ...
544 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 26 November 1885.
in translation:
...ity Rubens. I was particularly struck by the Frans Hals, The fisher boy. M. de Vos, portrait of guild...
in note 9:
Frans Hals, Fisher boy, c. 1630-1632. Ill. 2166. Van Gogh had also been transfixed by this work not l...
546 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Sunday, 6 December 1885.
in translation:
...r face, but with vivacity and piquancy à la Frans Hals. She danced excellently in an old-fashioned m...
547 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, Monday, 14 December 1885.
in translation:
...Jordaens. I know that he isn’t as intimate as Hals and Rembrandt, but those heads are so alive in t...
...gards paintings — it’s the fisher boy by Frans Hals, Rembrandt’s Saskia, a number of countenanc...
in note 19:
See for Frans Hals, Fisher boy: letter 544, n. 9.
550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
in translation:
My thoughts are full of Rembrandt and Hals at the moment, not because I see many paintings by them bu...
642 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in translation:
...eeks, like our old Dutchmen, Rembrandt, Potter, Hals, Vermeer, Ostade, Ruisdael. It doesn’t end.
651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
in translation:
...ps the most direct route. Let’s talk about Frans Hals. Never did he paint Christs, annunciations to...
Get him into your head, this Master Frans Hals, painter of various portraits of a whole self-assured ...
in note 19:
Hals made a number of paintings of musicians, so it is impossible to identify the one Van Gogh is ref...
in note 18:
Hals painted several ‘guttersnipes and laughing urchins’, but it is impossible to make out whethe...
in note 17:
Van Gogh means Hals’s portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen; see letter 536, n. 16.
in note 16:
Frans Hals, Willem van Heythuysen, c. 1638 (Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts). Ill. 2208.
in note 14:
Frans Hals, Gypsy girl, 1628-1630 (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Ill. 2207.
in note 13:
...lle Babbe and a smoker, which was attributed to Hals at the time. It shows the grimacing face of the ...
in note 12:
Frans Hals, The merry drinker; see letter 534, n. 8.
in note 11:
...ng are candidates for these family portraits by Hals: Family portrait in a landscape, c. 1620 (privat...
in note 10:
Frans Hals, The regentesses of the Old Men’s Alms House, 1664 (Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum). Ill. 22...
in note 8:
Hals painted several group portraits of officers. Van Gogh certainly knew the large canvas painted jo...
in note 7:
Hals made at least one work that can be described as the portrait of a soldier: Portrait of a man wea...
in note 5:
...an Gogh had got to know quite a few works by Frans Hals from reproductions when he was working at Gou...
656 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 6 August 1888.
in translation:
...Luther, Bunyan and others were mad, but also Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Delacroix and all the good, narro...
679 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 10 September 1888.
in translation:
...hink of the serenity that we see on faces in Frans Halses and Rembrandts, as in the portrait of old S...
in note 6:
See letter 651, nn. 9 and 10, for Hals’s Regents of the Old Men’s Alms House and Regentesses o...
762 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 24 April 1889.
in translation:
...ide once again, and the other Rembrandts, the F. Hals in Haarlem, which I found more beautiful than ...
in note 6:
For the paintings by Hals in Haarlem, see letter 130, n. 2.
779 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 June 1889.
in translation:
Thus the paintings of Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer are only at home in the old Dutch house.
804 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.
in translation:
...it’s one of the rare things that would hold up alongside even the old Dutchmen Rembrandt and Hals.

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Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
...dam. There he viewed the works of Rembrandt, Frans Hals and many others through fresh eyes, and it st...

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