890

Br. 1990: 895 | CL: T38
From: Theo van Gogh
To: Vincent van Gogh
Date: Paris, Monday, 23 June 1890
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a. Read: ‘Boch’.
1. This was The Alpilles with a hut (F 622 / JH 1766 [2823]), see letter 798, n. 8. For Rod’s Le sens de la vie, see letter 783, n. 5.
[2823]
2. Eugène Boch, The Agrappe mine in Frameries, Borinage (The Crachet-Pecry mine) (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 595 [595].
[595]
3. For Ernest Quost, Easter flowers [324], see letter 866, n. 10.
[324]
4. Georges Jeannin was represented at the Salon by the paintings The centenarian and Camellias and tulips. See exhib. cat Paris 1890-1, p. 100, nos. 1275-1276.
5. Quost lived at 74 rue de Rochechouart in Paris; the ‘park’ must refer to one of the parks where he painted.
6. Doctor Gachet with a pipe (F 1664 / JH 2028 [2921]). The original copper plate is preserved in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. See Van Heugten and Pabst 1995, pp. 79-86, 99-106.
[2921]
7. For the exhibition of Raffaëlli’s work, which had lasted until 21 June 1890, see letter 876, n. 1.