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450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
in note 15:
... book he says that, viewed from close to, ‘Velázquez is not exactly a great colourist, in the sens...
in translation:
...lanc says in Les artistes de mon temps about Velázquez’s technique was very interesting — that h...
515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
in note 15:
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, The waterseller, c. 1620 (London, Wellington Museum. The Boar...
in translation:
... they ever try to make ‘a labourer’? Did Velázquez try it in his water-carrier? Or his folk type...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in note 17:
...s had also called Hals, Veronese, Rubens and Velázquez true colourists (see Fromentin 1902, chapter ...
in translation:
...urist among the colourists, a colourist like Veronese, like Rubens, like Delacroix, like Velázquez.
...randt and Hals, didn’t they use black? And Velázquez??? Not just one, but twenty-seven blacks, I a...
in note 26:
...res d’autrefois: ‘There are men, witness Velázquez, who colour beautifully, with the dreariest o...
546 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Sunday, 6 December 1885.
in translation:
...k me like an amazingly beautiful Jordaens or Velázquez or — Goya — was one in black silk, probab...
598 To John Peter Russell. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.
in note 14:
Van Gogh admired Velázquez for his use of grey half-tones. He had read about his use of colour in Ch...
in translation:
...d Titian – Colour. The thing undertaken by Velázquez and Goya to be continued and – more fully o...
603 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.
in translation:
... figures here as lovely as those of Goya and Velázquez. They know how to stick a touch of pink on a ...
632 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Tuesday, 26 June 1888.
in translation:
... for the same reason that the Greeks do, and Velázquez, and so many other naturalists. Christ — al...
649 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
in translation:
...pale blue, pearl grey is as characteristic of him as the black, white, grey, pink is of Velázquez.
651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
in note 1:
... here thinking above all of the paintings by Velázquez and Goya in the Louvre, with which he and Ber...
in translation:
...ither you nor I can have a full idea of what Velázquez and Goya were like as men and as painters, be...
...randt’s colour is as to give a name to the Velázquez greys; we could say, for want of something be...
658 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 9 August 1888.
in note 8:
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, The fable of Arachne, c. 1657 (Madrid, Museo Nacional del Pra...
in translation:
...t know if I’m describing it clearly enough, but that’s what I’ve seen here of real Velázquez.
686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.
in translation:
...graver like the one who engraved the work of Velázquez were to do a fine etching of them. Be that as...
in note 22:
...he large number of engravers of prints after Velázquez, it is not possible to determine who he might...
801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
in translation:
...ave no great need to see works by Titian and Velázquez in museums, I’ve seen certain living types ...
815 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 25 October 1889.
in note 10:
...mention of copies by Prévost after Goya and Velázquez. See Collection M. le comte Armand Doria. 2 v...
in translation:
... something like the works of Prévost , who copied little-known Goyas and Velázquez for Mr Doria.
852 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 9 February 1890.
in note 7:
For the Salon Carré, see letter 567, n. 2. Velázquez’s painting formerly hung in the room contain...
in note 6:
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, The Infanta Margarita, daughter of Philip iv, king of Spain ...

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