search results

77 letters found

017 To Theo van Gogh. London, beginning of January 1874.
in translation:
...in, Eugène Feyen, Brion, Jundt, George Saal. Israëls, Anker, Knaus, Vautier, Jourdan, Jalabert, Ant...
029 To Theo van Gogh. London, between Monday, 4 January and Friday, 5 March 1875.
in translation:
...oment: Jules Dupré, Michel, Daubigny, Maris, Israëls, Mauve, Bisschop, &c. We’re going to hold an...
114 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 19 May 1877.
in note 10:
...ok in ’t leven (Winter, in life, too) by Jozef Israëls, in Kunstkronijk 4 (1863), NS, no. 17. Also...
in translation:
... Van der Maaten, Funeral in the cornfield – Israëls, a poor man walking on a snowy road in winter,...
129 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 4 September 1877.
in translation:
...th him at home on winter evenings, very good, Israëls would have liked it, the congregation was made...
133 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 30 October 1877.
in note 74:
It is not known which work by Israëls Vincent is referring to here.
in note 73:
In the autumn of 1877, Jozef Israëls, The potato harvest, 1877 (present whereabouts unknown) was on ...
in translation:
That painting by Israëls you describe must be beautiful, I can picture it from your clear descriptio...
138 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Sunday, 30 December 1877.
in note 9:
...depicted by a number of artists, including Jozef Israëls: Sewing school at Katwijk (Amsterdam, Van G...
139 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 9 and Thursday, 10 January 1878.
in translation:
...said I would much rather see an ugly woman by Israëls or Millet or a little old woman by E. Frère, ...
150 To Theo van Gogh. Wasmes, between Tuesday, 4 and Monday, 31 March 1879.
in note 6:
Jozef Israëls, The shipwrecked man (The drowned fisherman), 1861 (London, National Gallery). Ill. 20...
in translation:
...new and change their subject matter. What did Israëls make this winter? How much they would notice h...
151 To Theo van Gogh. Petit-Wasmes, between Tuesday, 1 and Wednesday, 16 April 1879.
in translation:
Has Israëls been working a lot lately, and Maris and Mauve?
152 To Theo van Gogh. Wasmes, on or about Thursday, 19 June 1879.
in translation:
A painting by Mauve or Maris or Israëls speaks more and more clearly than nature itself. So it is wi...
158 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 24 September 1880.
in translation:
...evealed — in Millet, in Jules Breton, in Jozef Israëls. But to return to Meryon, he has also, it s...
164 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Saturday, 2 April 1881.
in translation:
... Legros, not to mention Breton and Millet and Israëls, take very much to heart and never lose sight ...
171 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 26 August 1881
in note 12:
Jozef Israëls, The sewing school at Katwijk (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 200. This was exhibit...
in translation:
...hat exhibition, there was a superb drawing by Israëls, Sewing school at Katwijk. Mauve, a plough (su...
176 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Saturday, 15 October 1881.
in translation:
...act I greatly prefer Jules Breton, Feyen-Perrin, Millet, Ulysse Butin, Mauve, Artz, Israëls &c. &c.
211 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
in note 17:
...assumed that Van Gogh is referring here to Jozef Israëls’s Peasant family at table, 1882 (Amsterda...
in note 14:
...tely bears some resemblance to the head of the man in Israëls’s painting (see letter 325, n. 33).
in note 13:
Jozef Israëls, An old man – Fisher (Old friends) (Philadelphia Museum of Art, William L. Elkins Co...
in translation:
...iful like a Correggio, like a Millet, like an Israëls. Oh Theo – why don’t you let it all go han...
... a long, narrow room, with no other painting in that gallery but those two and them alone. Israëls
... thoughts. I’d like to see that painting by Israëls as a pendant to Millet’s Death and the woodc...
It’s a fabulous Israëls, I couldn’t really see anything else, it made such a deep impression on ...
215 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Thursday, 6 April 1882.
in translation:
...from the imagination seems overly rash to me. Israëls and Blommers and Neuhuys don’t do that, even...
232 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 28 May 1882.
in translation:
...l as, say, a drawing by Herkomer or Fildes or Israëls. And Dickens himself sometimes used the expres...
256 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 13 August 1882.
in note 8:
...f Pulchri Studio, among them B.J. Blommers, J. Israëls, J.H. Maris and A. Mauve. The aim was to obt...
in note 17:
Jozef Israëls, The painter J.H. Weissenbruch (Groningen, Groninger Museum). Ill. 202. (p. 10, cat. ...
in note 10:
Jozef Israëls, Moeder Jopje in hare woning (Mother Jopje in her dwelling), p. 10, cat. no. 49 (prese...
in translation:
... can’t get out of my head. An old mother by Israëls ditto. Neuhuys, Maris, Du Chattel, Ter Meulen ...
...here’s a lovely portrait of Weissenbruch by Israëls; I can’t tell you how lifelike and quintesse...
257 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 14 August 1882.
in note 8:
For Jozef Israëls, The painter J.H. Weissenbruch, see letter 256, n. 17.
in note 18:
Jozef Israëls, Een middagmaal (A midday meal), p. 10, cat. no. 48. Israëls painted four watercolour...
in note 17:
Jozef Israëls, Kindervermaak (Children’s pleasures), p. 10, cat. no. 50 (present whereabouts unkno...
in note 16:
Jozef Israëls, Denken en droomen (Thinking and dreaming), p. 10, cat. no. 47 (present whereabouts un...
in translation:
Israëls has another 4 large drawings, a girl at the window — children at the pig-sty — the drawi...
258 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 20 August 1882.
in translation:
...re as the finest one could imagine by Millet, Israëls or Degroux. Above the landscape a plain grey s...
267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
in translation:
...all looks different from one by Mauve, and a Gilbert or Du Maurier different from Rochussen.Israëls
269 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 25 September 1882.
in note 6:
It is not known which engraving by Jozef Israëls is meant (it is not mentioned in the family corresp...
in translation:
...ut your visit, and that you had given them that engraving after Israëls, which touched them deeply.
273 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 22 October 1882.
in translation:
... no longer find. There were things in it, by Degroux especially, that were as beautiful as Israëls.
277 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in translation:
...(Of course I do not mean people like Mauve or Israëls, although the latter sets an excellent example...
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:
... like such men as Millet, Breton, Degroux and Israëls, choose subjects which — while as true as th...
279 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
in note 15:
Jozef Israëls; Albert or Jozef Neuhuys; Jacob or Willem Maris; Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch.
in translation:
...ast splendid Pictura exhibition that although Israëls, Mauve, Maris, Neuhuys, Weissenbruch and many ...
280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
in translation:
...e, may equal Millet, but with genius there’s no question of surpassing or being inferior. Israëls
286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
in translation:
...bigny, Jacque, Breton, were young, in Holland Israëls, Mauve, Maris, &c. One thing reinforced the ot...
288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
in note 17:
Van Gogh probably means Jozef Israëls, Old friends, which he cited earlier in connection with Millet...
in translation:
Israëls has done it so very beautifully. Perhaps the most wonderful passage in Uncle Tom’s cabin i...
...at work — as in the case of Millet, Dupré, Israëls &c. — is something intended to bring peace, ...
...that when I, for my part, think of Millet, of Israëls, Breton, Degroux — so many others, Herkomer ...
in note 23:
Jozef Israëls, Jules or Emile Adélard Breton and Charles Degroux.
295 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 22 December 1882.
in note 6:
Jozef Israëls, Ecole de couture à Katwyk (Hollande) (The sewing school at Katwijk (Holland)), 1881....
in translation:
...ough photogravure of the needlework school by Israëls, say, or the painting by Blommers or the one b...
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.
306 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 3 February 1883.
in note 10:
...aving with The sewing school at Katwijk by Jozef Israëls (see letter 295, n. 6), he must have in min...
in translation:
A little like The sewing school at Katwijk by Israëls.
312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.
in translation:
...elieve they have the right to find fault with Israëls’s technique. M. feels strongly, and what he ...
316 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 15 February 1883.
in translation:
...ry awful that it’s almost beyond one’s comprehension, and one can’t grasp the concept.Israëls
To stay bold — like Israëls, say — how few there are who bring it off.
326 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 6 March 1883.
in note 9:
Jozef Israëls, Meisje leunende op een schop (Girl leaning on a spade) and Vrouw met een mand op de r...
in note 8:
...�té published two albums with etchings by Jozef Israëls, Auguste Danse and the Countess of Flanders...
in note 7:
The likeliest candidate for Israëls’s ‘Interior of a labourer’s dwelling’ is the etching Bin...
in note 6:
Jozef Israëls, Man die zijn pijp aansteekt (De roker) (Man lighting his pipe (The smoker)), etching...
in translation:
...tten to you about those two large etchings by Israëls, a man lighting his pipe and an interior of a ...
...me into the world. I have 2 small etchings by Israëls, perhaps even his very first, a girl with a sp...
330 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 18 March 1883.
in translation:
...ful the old courtyards are here. And although Israëls does it perfectly, so to speak, I find it stra...
332 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 21 March 1883.
in translation:
...dels often ENOUGH??? Van der W. replied: When Israëls was at my studio lately and saw my big paintin...
... artists in whom I see the soul most at work. Israëls, for instance, is a clever technician, but Vol...
...re’s the pity, in the same way that it’s a great pity that not everyone knows Israëls’s work.
337 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 21 April 1883.
in note 12:
Jozef Israëls had lived since 1873 in an elegant building with a studio on Koninginnegracht 2 in The...
in translation:
...e eventually, both men and women. I passed by Israëls’s house lately — I’ve never been inside ...
341 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 9 May 1883.
in translation:
...nst a new movement, it isn’t at all that of Israëls, Mauve and Maris. No, that’s simply the best...
...hich I think is the best, that of let’s say Israëls, Mauve, Maris. I don’t even know how far I�...
343 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 20 May 1883.
in note 6:
... (n. 96). From time to time Arnold visited Jozef Israëls’s studio in The Hague. Tripp replaced Van...
354 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Friday, 15 June 1883.
in translation:
Israëls himself and sometimes, sometimes Mauve and Maris too, cannot resist forceful outline, but do...
...one and colour. Yet in some charcoal drawings Israëls used lines reminiscent of Millet. I for one de...
356 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 22 June 1883.
in translation:
...e I’ll sell them, but still I think of what Israëls said to Van der Weele about his big painting: ...
361 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 July 1883.
in note 5:
This remark by Israëls is quoted again in letter 483.
in translation:
Israëls put it perfectly in the case of a Jules Dupré (Mesdag's large one): ‘It’s just like a f...
400 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 28 October 1883.
in translation:
...ols of painting, but to the school of Millet, Israëls, Breton, Boughton, Herkomer, several others. I...
403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
in translation:
...nd truth — Dupré, Daubigny, Corot, Millet, Israëls, Herkomer — not to mention Michelet, Hugo, Z...
...on, Herkomer, Boughton, Jules Dupré &c. &c., Israëls, in short the painters — I’m far from conf...
409 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 6 December 1883.
in translation:
... to me Millet is Millet, Rembrandt Rembrandt, Israëls Israëls &c., whether it costs ten cents or a ...
... men in Holland after those mastodons Mesdag, Israëls, Mauve, Blommers, Maris &c. will, under no cir...
439 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 March 1884.
in translation:
...a Corot, a Daubigny, a Dupré, a Millet or an Israëls — fellows who are certainly the great foreru...
450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
in translation:
... in The Hague, I indirectly heard things that Israëls had said about starting in a low register and ...
...ape, so it is with the figure too — I mean, Israëls paints a white wall quite differently from Reg...
...t for my part, I find so tremendously much in Israëls, for instance, that I’m not particularly cur...
...come untrue or superfluous? No. The same with Israëls, too — with Degroux, too (Degroux was very s...
483 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Thursday, 5 and about Thursday, 26 February 1885.
in note 11:
Van Gogh had quoted this remark by Israëls before – in letter 361.
493 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 13 April 1885.
in translation:
... human being he has shown painters a way that Israëls and Mauve, say, who live quite luxuriously, do...
498 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, early May 1885.
in note 1:
... woord door A.C. Loffelt en een teekening van Israëls. Leiden 1881 (Etchings from life. With an intr...
in translation:
...ertainly like the one by Rovers with the little etching by Israëls, and the drawings by Menzel too.
499 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 2 May 1885.
in translation:
... about the question. Corot, Millet, Daubigny, Israëls, Dupré, others — also paint light paintings...
500 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 May 1885.
in translation:
Whichever school one may work in — be it Israëls, Herkomer, so many different views — if it’s ...
... the contrary — you see so many Daubignys, Corots, Millets, Dupré, Israëls, Herkomer, Breton &c.
...he ones who did the same in England as Maris, Israëls, Mauve accomplished in Holland, that is, resto...
502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
in translation:
Just as Israëls won’t be surpassed here in Holland but, it seems to me, will remain the master. An...
506 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 2 June 1885.
in translation:
...f makes them insipid. Well, the real fellows, Israëls or Maris or Mauve or Neuhuys, do that very dif...
510 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 28 June 1885.
in translation:
...— without a mystical figure of Christ, like Israëls, like Artz, better than this, where one gets a...
515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
in translation:
...l the peasant painters of this century — an Israëls — they find that more beautiful than anythin...
...rrect — in proportion and anatomy. But when Israëls or when Daumier or Lhermitte, say, dra...
519 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 16 July 1885.
in translation:
... next to one of his present drawings it would look completely red. And the same about Israëls, too.
526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
in translation:
...d — could one say THE SAME in response to the assertion that Mauve, Israëls, Maris don’t draw!
534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
in note 19:
The two works by Jozef Israëls referred to here are The way past the graveyard, 1856 (Amsterdam, Ste...
in translation:
I saw two paintings by Israëls in Amsterdam, that is the Zandvoort fisherman and — one of his very...
...much in terms of technique, become paint, and Israëls is beyond the paint. To be sure — I’m not ...
...rown (all well mixed and broken) or not? When Israëls says that one mustn’t be black, he certainly...
535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
in note 18:
See for Jozef Israëls’s The Zandvoort fisherman: letter 534, n. 19.
in translation:
...reat deal sounder and more solid technique in Israëls — for instance in that very old work, the Za...
...e old Dutchmen and rather to the paintings by Israëls and those who have a direct affinity with Isra...
...masterfully well many French painters, how an Israëls understood precisely that. At the museum — I...
... think these things are wrong because I think Israëls, for instance, so good, because there are so m...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in translation:
Millet, Rembrandt and, for instance, Israëls — it has sometimes rightly been said of them that the...
in note 25:
See for Jozef Israëls’s The Zandvoort fisherman: letter 534, n. 19.
537 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 28 October 1885.
in note 14:
See for Israëls’s The Zandvoort fisherman: letter 534, n. 19.
in translation:
...g from the days of 30-48, a Paul Huet, an old Israëls like the Zandvoort fisherman, a Cabat, an Isab...
539 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 7 November 1885.
in translation:
...at respect, Chardin is as great as Rembrandt. Israëls has something of the same, and for my part I a...
547 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, Monday, 14 December 1885.
in translation:
...oux, Woman by a cradle, something like an old Israëls. What else shall I tell you about these new pa...
557 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886.
in note 13:
From 1845 to April 1847 Jozef Israëls was in Paris, where among other things he studied at the Ecole...
in translation:
...ho strove for something high all the same — Israëls himself, for instance, he was still unknown an...
595 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 11 April 1888.
in translation:
... found in the Dutch palette, Maris, Mauve and Israëls. But it’s found in that of Delacroix, who ha...
626 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between Saturday, 16 and Wednesday, 20 June 1888.
in translation:
...n I came to Paris with the ideas of Mauve and Israëls and other clever painters. And when there’s ...
You understand that Israëls and Mauve, who didn’t use whole colours, who always worked in grey, do...
628 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 19 June 1888.
in note 1:
Van Gogh regarded Israëls’s work as the counterpart of Millet’s. Nothing is known about any cont...
in translation:
...ut Millet, and then I had acquaintances in Holland in the category of painters like Mauve, Israëls.
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in translation:
...lli, Isabey, Decamps, Dupré, Jongkind, Ziem, Israëls, Meunier, a heap of others, Corot, Jacque... c...
708 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 19 October 1888.
in translation:
...e they put him above J. Maris, but well above Israëls. I believe that if you knew them you’d share...
719 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 11 or Monday, 12 November 1888.
in note 1:
...Theo and Jo Bonger about Pink peach trees: ‘Israëls had seen Vincent’s painting at Jet’s and h...
742 Christian Vilhelm Mourier-Petersen to Vincent van Gogh. Holbaekgaard, Friday, 25 January 1889.
in translation:
...ong your compatriots, and the works of Mauve, Israëls and Breitner interested me very much, only it ...
746 Arnold Koning to Vincent van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 15 February 1889.
in note 7:
Jozef Israëls, The shepherd (The Hague, Gemeentemusem). Ill. 189. It was shown at the exhibition Lev...
in translation:
... aren’t Jaap and Willem and Thijs Maris and Israëls fellows who uphold the fame of the Dutch schoo...
768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
in translation:
...at we have loved in our time, Millet, Breton, Israëls, Whistler, Delacroix, Leys. And be fully assur...
774 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 21 May 1889.
in note 13:
Jozef Israëls exhibited three paintings: Les travailleurs de la mer (Workers of the sea), Paysans à...
in translation:
...larly, also some W. and J. Maris and Bosboom, Israëls and Breitner. One of the Weissenbruchs is a wi...
813 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 22 October 1889.
in note 2:
The painter Isaac Israëls, the son of Jozef Israëls, spent five weeks in Paris in September-October...

top

No essay items found

1 other item found

Documentation
in documentation:
... had just written him a note to tell him what Israëls and the others had said a...

top

77 letters and 1 other item found

77 letters found

No essay items found

1 other item found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters