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246 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 15 and Sunday, 16 July 1882.
in translation:
...hings there by Dupré, Corot, Daubigny, Diaz, Courbet, Breton, Jacque &c. I especially liked the lar...
...e of cattle in the Alps. And a landscape by Courbet: yellow hilly, sandy ground, with fresh young ...
I think this is the most beautiful work by Courbet that I’ve seen so far.
in note 14:
Gustave Courbet, Hilly landscape, c. 1858-1859 (The Hague, The Mesdag Collection). Ill. 731. See exhi...
256 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 13 August 1882.
in translation:
... Daubigny, Corot, Jules Dupré, Jules Breton, Courbet, Diaz, Jacque, T. Rousseau — which at once s...
298 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 3 January 1883.
in note 2:
...nked it to The sower: ‘Millet does not have Courbet’s brilliance as a colourist; he is more mono...
467 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 25 October 1884.
in translation:
...n their effect of certain studies of heads by Courbet, say. But it’s becoming devilish good, that ...
in note 5:
It is impossible to tell which of Courbet’s numerous studies of heads Van Gogh has in mind here. Cf...
515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
in translation:
...ne wants to achieve a whole. One may laugh at Courbet’s saying, ‘painting angels! who has ever s...
in note 7:
...ls! Who has ever seen angels? No one!” said Courbet. The master painter of Ornans was wrong: there...
537 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 28 October 1885.
in translation:
...k good in life. Truer by far is a portrait by Courbet, manly, free — painted in all sorts of beaut...
548 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 17 December 1885.
in translation:
...ow and empty he proved to be later. Manet and Courbet, who didn’t seem to be serious during their ...
in note 13:
Van Gogh could have read about Courbet’s ‘caprices burlesques’ in Silvestre’s Histoire des ar...
550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
in translation:
...want to get it at any price. Manet did it and Courbet — well, confound it, I have the same ambitio...
552 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, between Tuesday, 12 and Saturday, 16 January 1886.
in translation:
...oix, nor whomever you like, not even Manet or Courbet, set as their aim, any more than Rubens or Ver...
626 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between Saturday, 16 and Wednesday, 20 June 1888.
in translation:
...here are names like Delacroix, Millet, Corot, Courbet, Daumier, who dominate everything that was pro...
649 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
in translation:
... by Millet, a Dutch portrait, a nude woman by Courbet or Degas, these calm and modelled perfections ...
655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
in translation:
...ngs just as they are, apparently without thought, the way Courbet painted his beautiful naked women.
... it, he was a handsome man and a good fucker, Courbet too; their health allowed them to drink, eat, ...
in note 13:
Van Gogh could have read about Courbet’s sex life in Théophile Silvestre’s Histoire des artistes...
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in translation:
Ah, Manet was really really close to it, and Courbet, to marrying form and colour. Me, I’d be quite...
660 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 13 August 1888.
in note 14:
...ave Flaubert, Charles-François Daubigny, Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet. See Patrick Brady, ‘L...
726 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 17 or Tuesday, 18 December 1888.
in note 22:
Courbet, Female bathers, 1853 (Montpellier, Musée Fabre). Ill. 729.
in translation:
...traits of Bruyas, by Delacroix, by Ricard, by Courbet, by Cabanel, by Couture, by Verdier, by Tassae...
By Courbet, first, The village girls, magnificent, a nude woman seen from the back, another on the gr...
in note 11:
There were thirteen paintings by Courbet. See cat. Montpellier 1926, pp. 130-136, cat. nos. 420-431, ...
in note 4:
...Musée Fabre had three portraits of Bruyas by Courbet, one dating from 1853, half-length: Alfred Bru...
in note 1:
...ad become known mainly as the Maecenas of Gustave Courbet. In 1868 Bruyas donated part of his collec...
765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
in translation:
...tood, it’s true, by the majority of visitors who look at Courbet and Cabanel and Victor Giraud &c.
in note 16:
...ée Fabre owned 9 paintings by Cabanel, 13 by Courbet and 1 by Giraud. See cat. Montpellier 1926, pp...
782 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.
in translation:
...y is what proves that they’re less skilled fighters than other artists like Delacroix and Courbet.
800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
in translation:
...at touched me there more than the magnificent Courbets, which are marvels, the young ladies of the v...
in note 32:
For Courbet’s Female bathers and The sleeping spinner, see letter 726, nn. 22 and 23.

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