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160 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Monday, 1 November 1880.
in note 6:
...until October you’ll have a good friend in Mr de Bock and then Rappard’ (FR b2495). After Vincent...
171 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 26 August 1881
in note 27:
De Bock’s estate contained four etchings by Jean-François Millet. It was possibly these etchings (...
in translation:
...n The Hague at Mr Tersteeg’s, Mauve’s and De Bock’s. Mr Tersteeg was very friendly and said he...
It was a pleasure to make De Bock’s acquaintance, I was in his studio. He’s making a large painti...
One of the most beautiful things by De Bock, I thought, was a copy of a Corot. It could hardly pass f...
... mill in the snow. I also saw Willem Maris at De Bock’s, who has a beautiful sketch by him, a road...
De Bock was still very pleased with the drawings by Millet that he bought from you.
in note 9:
...al other artists in the space of four months. De Bock worked on it from March to August 1881. With i...
in note 7:
This copy by De Bock after Corot is not known.
in note 5:
It is not known which of De Bock’s works this refers to.
in note 3:
The painter Théophile Emile Achille de Bock worked at Zuid-Binnensingel 128 in The Hague. From 1877 ...
175 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, between Wednesday, 12 and Saturday, 15 October 1881.
in translation:
What you say about De Bock I find true in every respect, it’s also what I think about him, but I ha...
...an he is now, to be sure. I told him frankly: De Bock, if you and I were to concentrate on figure dr...
... know the painter Destrée. He had gone up to De Bock with a very pedantic air and had said to him, ...
176 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Saturday, 15 October 1881.
in translation:
...Mesdag Panorama, I was there with the painter De Bock who collaborated on it, and he told me about a...
...pedantry. Well — this gentleman went to see De Bock one day and said to him very superciliously, v...
To which De Bock replied: ‘Mr Destrée, what is easier, helping to paint a panorama or refusing to ...
191 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Thursday, 1 and Saturday, 3 December 1881.
in translation:
...r Tersteeg, and of the painters I’ve met (the merry) Weissenbruch and Jules Bakhuyzen and De Bock.
196 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 January 1882.
in translation:
De Bock ultimately disappoints me, there’s something spineless about him, and he gets angry if one ...
in note 2:
This description is too general to be linked to a specific painting by De Bock.
204 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 13 February 1882.
in translation:
...aw figures too; all the same, he doesn’t do it. He recently made a beautiful drawing, though. Bock
in note 9:
It is not known which of De Bock’s drawings Van Gogh is referring to here.
210 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
in translation:
...! I have the big work by Sensier on loan from De Bock. It interests me so much that I wake up at nig...
212 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 16 and on or about Monday, 20 March 1882.
in translation:
Theo, Sunday I went to see De Bock again – I don’t know why, but each time I go to see him I feel...
in note 11:
In 1882 De Bock was living at Kanaalweg 9 in Scheveningen. He did not have an adequate studio there, ...
224 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 7 May 1882.
in note 2:
Van Gogh quotes an analogous line of reasoning used by Theophile de Bock in letters 175 and 176.
226 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 12 or Saturday, 13 May 1882.
in note 2:
...rch Van Gogh had borrowed this book from Théophile de Bock and read it with great enthusiasm (see le...
250 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 23 July 1882.
in translation:
...me very beautiful small charcoal drawings by T. de Bock, mostly touched up with white and delicate bl...
in note 15:
There are so many charcoal drawings by De Bock that match this description that it is impossible to e...
277 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in translation:
...s working with a model, but more gentlemen like Bock and Breitner, say.) I haven’t seen anything at...
286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
in translation:
...d to see (in the window at G&C) a painting by De Bock that seemed to me far, far better than the one...
in note 13:
... of Van Gogh’s description this is probably De Bock’s Road and cottage, which was sold a short t...
291 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Monday, 4 and Saturday, 9 December 1882.
in translation:
...ny now lack. Do you think, for instance, that De Bock knows what you know? No, most definitely not. ...
312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.
in translation:
Judging by his fur coat, De Bock appears to be in especially flourishing circumstances. I hadn’t se...
325 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 5 March 1883.
in note 26:
...n Hollande (A ferryboat in Holland) that Théophile de Bock showed at the Salon of 1883 (see letter 3...
in translation:
You ask after De Bock. I haven’t visited him for a long time, not since before I became ill. I noti...
... the Scheveningse Bosjes. I said then – But De Bock, if Millet were here now, would he look at tho...
...or Ruisdael. Still, I may be mistaken or see more in him later, nothing would please me more.De Bock
... Bilders too, and there isn’t a painting by De Bock that I don’t see with some pleasure. They al...
.... I’d like something like that to happen to De Bock. But will that be the case? I’d pity him if ...
360 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Saturday, 7 July 1883.
in translation:
...a long time. This is what happened to me with De Bock, and I wanted to write to you about what I saw...
There are very spirited things in De Bock’s work, though, and one would view it with more pleasure ...
...w landscape studies as well, one yesterday at De Bock’s, a potato field in the dunes; the day befo...
...y in order to be closer to the sea. I talked to Bock about houses in Scheveningen, but I must stop sa...
Now, though, I’m thinking of asking De Bock to let me have a corner of his attic as a pied-à-terre...
So that pied-à-terre at De Bock’s and taking the tram more often might perhaps be enough to be abl...
De Bock is to come to my place this week and we’re to discuss it further. He’s thinking of moving...
...o grubbers. I hope that, taking a turn now with Bock, I’ll be able to get on with him; it could do ...
...you write soon? Now I’ve written to you about Bock as I did recently about Rappard, that way you he...
De Bock has also taken to reading Zola and had read Le Nabab by Daudet as well. Do you know Germinie ...
... can work it up. Am looking forward to it. With Bock I’ve found splendid potato fields in the dunes...
in note 15:
De Bock, who was well off, built up a substantial collection of antiques. See Collection Théophile d...
in note 11:
De Bock had a studio at Van Stolkweg 20, now 22: see letter 212, n. 11.
in note 3:
A sketch after De Bock’s Un bac en Hollande (A ferryboat in Holland) (present whereabouts unknown),...
in note 2:
This may be De Bock’s canvas Winter (present whereabouts unknown; auctioned on 10 March 1907 by Fre...
in note 1:
...in Paris Theo was on friendly terms with Théophile de Bock. On 5 July 1880 Theo’s mother wrote to ...
361 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 July 1883.
in translation:
Oh, I must tell you that De Bock came round — very pleasant. Breitner, whom I didn’t in the least...
...e. I saw Van der Velden once last year — at De Bock’s one evening when we looked at etchings. I�...
...d, in fact the exact opposite of Breitner and De Bock. There’s something manly and strong in him, ...
Well, I’ve spoken to De Bock again and I can leave my stuff with him when I go to do studies in Sch...
...o go and see Blommers again soon. I talked to De Bock about his painting at the Salon, November, whi...
362 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 13 July 1883.
in translation:
... a brief word with you. I’ve confirmed with De Bock that I’ll have a pied-à-terre at his place....
...easure and which you think shows some progress. Bock saw some painted studies from last year and thou...
in note 1:
De Bock’s studio was at Van Stolkweg 20; Blommers lived at Van Stolkweg 17.
364 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 22 July 1883.
in translation:
...r see which way the work should go. I talk to De Bock and other painters sometimes, but I don’t ta...
...r it will get worse. I wouldn’t say this to De Bock or someone like that — but I trust you enoug...
367 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 25 July 1883.
in translation:
...r. There are a couple of small seascapes at De Bock’s, one with a choppy, one with a calm sea, a...
449 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 6 June 1884.
in translation:
And yet I believe that De Bock, who christened certain colours ‘snot colours’, certainly wouldn�...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in note 23:
...49. In the same letter it appears that the term ‘snot colour’ was coined by Théophile de Bock.
888 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 15 June 1890.
in translation:
...’ll come and see you, he was recommended by De Bock who had recommended Fontainebleau to him, but ...
in note 4:
This refers to Théophile de Bock.

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1 essay item found

Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
in letter_writer_4:
...n Rappard he criticized the Dutch artist Théophile de Bock, who was working in The Hague when Van Go...

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Chronology
in 1883:
... with Herman van der Weele in the dunes, and works in De Bock’s studio in Scheveningen (347, 360).
in 1882:
...l Is in touch with the artists Weissenbruch, De Bock, Jules van de Sande Bakhuyzen and Bernardus Bl...
in 1881:
...st Visits Mauve in The Hague. Meets Théophile de Bock and shows his studies to Johannes Bosboom...
...studies to Johannes Bosboom. *Goes with De Bock to see the Panorama Mesdag and the sixth exhib...

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25 letters, 1 essay item and 1 other item found

25 letters found

1 essay item found

1 other item found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters