347 (349, 287): To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 30 May 1883.

347

Br. 1990: 349 | CL: 287
From: Vincent van Gogh
To: Theo van Gogh
Date: The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 30 May 1883
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1. Possibly Peat diggers in the dunes (F 1031 / JH 363

): see letter 346, n. 1.

2. The enclosed sketch Peat diggers in the dunes (F 1030 / JH 364).

3. It is not certain which sketches Van Gogh means here; they are probably On the road (F - / JH Juv. 15) and In front of the embers (F - / JH Juv. 16), which were enclosed with letter 162 in January 1881. He wrote then that he had also drawn ‘a man sweeping snow’ and ‘a walk in the snow’ (letter 162, l. 14). ‘Etc.’ may refer to these.

4. For Henri Leys, ‘The walk in the snow

’, which is part of a decoration of 1855 in the dining room of his home in Antwerp, see letter 354, n. 3.

5. For Van Rappard’s drawings Silversmith workshop, see letter 344, n. 6.

6. For the subject, cf. Van Rappard’s watercolour Ward in the Institute for the Blind in Utrecht: letter 344, n. 5.

7. For Van Rappard’s Tile painters , see letters 331, n. 14 and 344, n. 7.

a. Means: ‘uitgaven’ (outgoings).

8. For the reference to ‘Le Paradou’ in Emile Zola’s La faute de l’abbé Mouret (1875) , see letter 344, n. 1.

9. These studies are not known. Cf. for the poses of several figures in Peat diggers in the dunes the drawings Digger (F 906 / JH 260

), Digger (F 908 / JH 258), Scheveningen woman with a wheelbarrow (F 1021 / JH 362), Man breaking up the soil (F 1307 / JH 853) and the lithograph Digger (F 1656 / JH 262