23 letters found
- 590 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 30 March 1888.
- in translation:
...ing like one finds described in the book by Pierre Loti, Le mariage de Loti, where nature in Otaheit...
- in note 8:
The novel Le mariage de Loti (1880) by Pierre Loti contains idealized descriptions of nature in Tahit...
- 613 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 26 May 1888.
- in translation:
...se characters Pierre Loti creates. For all that he’s phlegmatic, he has a good heart. Pierre Loti
- in note 11:
... character of the Japanese and Tahitians as Pierre Loti describes them in Madame Chrysanthème and L...
- 626 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between Saturday, 16 and Wednesday, 20 June 1888.
- in translation:
...would probably yield more. I haven’t read much lately, except Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti.
- in note 13:
For Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème see letter 628, n. 20.
- 628 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 19 June 1888.
- in note 20:
Pierre Loti’s novel Madame Chrysanthème (1888) is set in Nagasaki. A French officer marries the Ja...
- in translation:
...g others, had been there, and said that from now on he would often revisit boulevard Montmartre.Loti
- 637 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 8 or Monday, 9 July 1888.
- in translation:
...try to do them ourselves instead. Have you read Loti’s book, Madame Chrysanthème? Very interesting...
- in note 11:
See for Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème: letter 628, n. 20.
- 639 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 13 July 1888.
- in note 11:
See for Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème: letter 628, n. 20. It contains the following passage about hou...
- 642 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
- in translation:
...r I’d see that there’s also something else. Loti’s book, Mme Chrysanthème, taught me this: the...
- in note 2:
See letter 628, n. 20, for Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème; for the passage about the bare houses, s...
- 644 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, between Tuesday, 17 and Friday, 20 July 1888.
- in note 8:
... had read about the Japanese approach to art in Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème, see letter 639, n. 11....
- 650 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
- in translation:
...mousmé’ is (you’ll know when you’ve read Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème), I’ve just painted o...
- in note 2:
Loti writes in Madame Chrysanthème: ‘Mousmé is a word meaning a young girl or a very young woman....
- 653 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
- in translation:
...s someone who works like one possessed, and he does all sorts of things; he’s in Brittany now.Loti
- in note 9:
Le mariage de Loti
- 657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
- in note 17:
...n ‘sugared peppers’ and ‘salted sweets’ Loti writes: ‘sparrow mince, a stuffed shrimp, seaw...
- 678 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888.
- in note 4:
An allusion to Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème; see letter 657, n. 17. Vincent had already recommended ...
- 685 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 21 September 1888.
- in note 7:
See letter 628, n. 20, for Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème.
- 695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
- in note 9:
...ords Van Gogh used do not occur in the article. Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème might also have inspire...
- 707 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 17 October 1888.
- in note 14:
See letter 628, n. 20, for Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème. Van Gogh wrote this sentence in brackets...
- 708 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 19 October 1888.
- in note 7:
See letter 628, n. 20, for Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème.
- 714 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 27 or Sunday, 28 October 1888.
- in translation:
...ing — links with those Icelandic fishermen of Loti’s. I believe that it’ll make the same impres...
- in note 3:
Pierre Loti’s Pêcheur d’Islande (1886) is a novel about the hard, dangerous life of Breton fishe...
- 718 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 10 November 1888.
- in note 11:
The illustrated edition of Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème that Gauguin received from Milliet had been ...
- 739 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Monday, 21 January 1889.
- in note 5:
...euse in a fishing boat was prompted by what Pierre Loti writes in Pêcheur d’Islande (1886) about ...
- 776 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 23 May 1889.
- in note 7:
...the Berceuse in a fishing boat derives from Pierre Loti’s Pêcheur d’Islande (Icelandic fisherma...
- 804 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.
- in translation:
...f working on it I came across an article by Pierre Loti, the author of Mon frère Yves and Pêcheur ...
...where she writes and where she makes paintings, Loti says that he saw this Delacroix canvas there, wh...
- in note 10:
Loti quotes the saying that a house without a child is like a bell without a clapper. The passage com...
- in note 9:
Loti gives a detailed description of the boudoir of the Romanian queen. Commenting on Delacroix’s p...
- in note 8:
The article ‘Carmen Sylva’ by Pierre Loti was published in Le Figaro, Supplément Littéraire of ...
- in note 7:
Pierre Loti’s novel Mon frère Yves (1883) is the story of the friendship between the first-person ...
- 805 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.
- in translation:
...ch talked of her and of the painting was by Pierre Loti, who made one feel that this Carmen Sylva wa...
- in note 5:
For Loti’s article ‘Carmen Sylva’ with the passage quoted by Van Gogh, see letter 804, n. 8.
- 812 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 21 October 1889.
- in note 17:
...ppearing in letters 804 and 805, this passage was not quoted by Loti in his article on Carmen Sylva.
- in note 14:
...ge of the simple interiors of the Japanese from Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème. See letter 639, n. 11....
1 essay item found
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
- in letter_writer_2:
...recise on the novel Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti, but Van Gogh saw nothing wrong in that: ‘...
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1888:
About 19 June
#Has read Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème (628).
Term(s):
Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Louis Marie Julien Viaud (Pierre Loti) (1850-1923) French writer
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