330

Br. 1990: 334 | CL: 276
From: Vincent van Gogh
To: Theo van Gogh
Date: The Hague, Sunday, 18 March 1883
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1. It is not known which drawing of ‘a corner of the house’ this is.
2. This watercolour is not known. The composition of Snowy yard (F 1022 / JH 344) differs too much from the ‘scratch’ Snowy yard (F - / JH 342) for it to be meant here.
3. Van Gogh had written in letter 327 that he had found some natural chalk at a chemist’s.
4. This enclosed sketch, which is not based on a drawing, was Man in a village inn (F - / JH 339). See cat. Amsterdam 1996, pp. 226-227, cat. no. 64.
5. Girl kneeling by a cradle (F - / JH 338), a ‘scratch’ after the drawing with the same title F 1024 / JH 336 [2431].
[2431]
6. For Woman sewing, with a girl (F 1072 / JH 341 [2434]), see letters 326 and 327.
[2434]
7. Van Gogh did various sketches of skippers, fishermen and men wearing a sou’wester. This may have been the small sketch, Fisherman with a sou’wester, sitting with a pipe (F 1013 / JH 305), the corresponding drawing being Fisherman with a sou’wester, sitting with a pipe (F 1010 / JH 306).
8. Vincent had asked about Lhermitte in letter 308.
9. Lithographic drawing examples by Eugène Cicéri were to be found in his Cours élémentaire & progressif pour tous les genres de dessin. Paysages à teintes graduées par Eug. Cicéri. New York, Paris and London n.d. and the sequel Le paysage par E. Cicéri. ‘Etudes et croquis d’après nature, lithographié à deux teintes, par lui même’, announced in the first publication (Bordeaux, Musée Goupil). Cf. also L. Deteil, ‘Cicéri: Catalogue de son oeuvre lithographique’, L’Artiste (1891), pp. 216-221.
Cicéri also devised a Cours d’aquarelle (Paris 1878) published by Lemercier & Cie. It contains 25 texts, in French and English alternately, which discuss the paintings done by the various watercolour techniques.
10. It is not known which ‘recent’ drawings by Cicéri Van Gogh means here: the (charcoal) drawings traced are undated. Theo had written about this, as the rest of the letter shows.
11. For Reuter’s Gedroogde kruiden, see letter 317, n. 3.
12. For Régamey’s American sketches [1251] [1247] [2055] [1248], see letter 302, n. 10.
[1251]
13. ‘Gypsies’ may refer to work by Guillaume Urbain, not by Félix Régamey: see letter 321, n. 8.
14. For Félix Elie Régamey and Japan, see letter 325, n. 19.