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017 To Theo van Gogh. London, beginning of January 1874.
in translation:
Leys, Tissot, Lagye, Boughton, Millais, Thijs Maris, Degroux, De Braekeleer Jr.
028 To Theo van Gogh. London, Monday, 10 August 1874.
in translation:
‘Leys is not an imitator, but a kindred spirit’ is a true saying that touched me as well. One cou...
What is the subject of Fagel’s Leys?
in note 9:
This person has not been identified; nor is it known to which of Henri Leys’s works this refers.
in note 7:
...resumably Van Gogh knew this quotation about Henri Leys – to which Theo evidently referred – from...
148 To Theo van Gogh. Laken, on or about Wednesday, 13 and Friday, 15 or Saturday, 16 November 1878.
in translation:
...m together, especially the works by Degroux and Leys and so many other remarkable paintings, such as ...
in note 16:
The works by Henri Leys on display were Rich and poor (1837); The reinstatement of worship in the Onz...
280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
in translation:
...ers — are no more. Think further back, I say, Leys, Gavarni, Degroux (to name just a few), or still...
304 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 25 January 1883.
in translation:
...n Paris during the siege by him is splendid, as are several London sketches and Irish sketches. Leys
318 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 20 or Wednesday, 21 February 1883.
in translation:
... in art that found expression in, for instance, Leys and Degroux (sometimes) and Lagye and De Vriendt...
347 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 30 May 1883.
in translation:
...all in existence is The walk on the ramparts by Leys. It isn’t that movement, though, that’s th...
in note 4:
For Henri Leys, ‘The walk in the snow’, which is part of a decoration of 1855 in the dining room ...
354 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Friday, 15 June 1883.
in translation:
...ample of singularly robust, forceful drawing is Leys’s paintings, particularly the series of decora...
... Mauve and Maris too, cannot resist forceful outline, but don’t do it like Leys or like Herkomer.
in note 3:
Henri Leys’s paintings of 1855 were part of the dining room in his home, now Leysstraat 12 in Antwe...
476 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 December 1884.
in translation:
...edieval costumes, he would have run parallel to Leys, not just as regards genius but perhaps also —...
499 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 2 May 1885.
in note 10:
... had talked about in letters 493 and 497 – Henri Leys, who is mentioned not long after this, did no...
500 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 May 1885.
in translation:
...mething from in this regard? From a painting by Leys; not from Leys’s first period, but from the se...
in note 18:
See for these two works, Crossing the bridge and Merry Company by Leys letter 354, n. 3.
in note 17:
... may have based his breakdown of the periods in Leys’s work on the article ‘Artistes contemporain...
502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
in translation:
Then pointing to Lhermitte as Millet’s successor — I think all of it manly language, and outstand...
...assed here in Holland but, it seems to me, will remain the master. And in Belgium, Leys and Degroux.
510 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 28 June 1885.
in translation:
...ple, like Nuijen’s moving day, such as an old Leys, such as a Cabat — a Diaz, Lepoittevin. ...
542 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 17 November 1885.
in translation:
... I’ll do there will probably be to go and see Leys’s paintings in his dining room, if one can see...
in note 1:
...Gogh did as he said, see letter 544. See for Henri Leys’ paintings, including the The walk referred...
544 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 26 November 1885.
in note 28:
Henri Leys’s P.P. Rubens feted by the gunsmiths of Antwerp (1851) and Flemish nuptials in the 17th ...
in translation:
I’ll start by telling you that I’ve seen Leys’s dining room, you know The walk on the ramparts,...
... reception) already has some cracks, too. Baron Leys’s oh so clever son has also made an improvemen...
...on, Munthe, Achenbach, a fine Clays — two old Leys, one Braekeleer-like, another romantic, the latt...
in note 6:
...n Gogh may have gathered this information about Leys’s son Julien during his visit; Julien’s part...
in note 3:
...rd; it measures 152 x 78 cm. Ill. 1058. In 1863 Leys did make a preliminary study on a panel and ther...
in note 2:
See for these works by Leys letter 354, n. 3. Henri de Braekeleer had made a painting of this dining ...
551 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Saturday, 2 January 1886.
in translation:
...ay — do you remember it? It’s very fine and Leys would certainly have fallen in love with it, or ...
553 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Tuesday, 19 or Wednesday, 20 January 1886.
in translation:
...I’ve moreover arranged with Vinck (a pupil of Leys’s by whom I saw things in the manner of Leys, ...
in note 4:
...er Frans Kasper Huibrecht Vinck studied with Henri Leys around 1866 and was very much influenced by h...
768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
in translation:
... Millet, Breton, Israëls, Whistler, Delacroix, Leys. And be fully assured that I myself am sufficien...
779 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 June 1889.
in translation:
Thus also the servant girl in Leys’s great fresco, when she’s engraved by Braquemond, becomes a n...
853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.
in translation:
... He does not imitate Boccaccio any more than Henri Leys imitated the primitives. Well, this was to sa...
in note 10:
An allusion to something Théophile Gautier said about Henri Leys; see letter 28, n. 7.

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Chronology
in 1885:
About 25 November *Sees the mural paintings by Leys in the dining room of the artist’s house, and ...

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