19 letters found
- 490 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 6 April 1885.
- in note 12:
Van Gogh derived this from what Jean Gigoux says about Delacroix in Causeries sur les artistes de mon...
- 492 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 9 April 1885.
- in note 4:
Gigoux uses the term ‘hommes vaillaints’ to describe the generation of Delacroix, seeking recogni...
- in translation:
...r I are contemporaries of that generation that Gigoux rightly calls ‘the valiant ones’ in that bo...
- 494 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 18 April 1885.
- in note 2:
Derived from what Gigoux wrote about Delacroix in Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps (Gigoux 188...
- in translation:
...ine. I found the right words for the latter in Gigoux’s book, but the thing itself had already occu...
- 495 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 21 April 1885.
- in note 3:
A paraphrase of the quotation from Gigoux’s Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps which Van Gogh ...
- 496 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 28 April 1885.
- in note 3:
Later in this letter Van Gogh refers to Jean Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps, who wro...
- in note 11:
Derived from Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: see letter 494, n. 2.
- in translation:
...orks in that manner of drawing with ovals that Gigoux spoke of? — Henri Pille. Do not start from th...
- 497 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 30 April 1885.
- in note 12:
These words must have been inspired by Jean Gigoux’s comment on a work by Delacroix in Causeries su...
- 502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
- in translation:
...example by reading good things like the one by Gigoux. Really study the subject of colour etc. for yo...
- in note 27:
See for this expression, derived from Gigoux’s Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: letter 494,...
- in note 25:
Jean Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps (1885).
- 506 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 2 June 1885.
- in translation:
...s precisely the question that was discussed in Gigoux’s book, ‘do not start from the line but fro...
- in note 26:
Taken from Gigoux’s Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: see letter 494, n. 2. Van Gogh formula...
- 508 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 15 June 1885.
- in note 4:
...f this goal as a result of what he had read in Gigoux’s Causeries sur l’artistes de mon temps. Se...
- 515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
- in note 4:
‘Les vaillants’ is taken from Gigoux’s Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: see letter 492,...
- in note 3:
Gigoux mentions these ‘dix-sept de refusés’ in Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: see lett...
- in translation:
You remember that it says in the book by Gigoux how it came about that Delacroix had 17 paintings re...
- 526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
- in note 9:
...phrase ‘(par les masses, par noyaux)’ from Gigoux’s book, but he could find it on the same page...
- in note 5:
Taken from Jean Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: ‘When Delacroix paints, he said [t...
- in note 10:
In Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps Gigoux recounted the following anecdote which, since Van G...
- in translation:
...and some other things about Delacroix, too, by Gigoux. I’ve also read a beautiful book by Bracquemo...
Something else — the painter Gigoux comes to Delacroix with an ancient bronze and asks his opinion ...
- 535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
- in note 25:
...this description of Delacroix, derived from Jean Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: le...
- 542 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 17 November 1885.
- in note 8:
...ies sur les artistes de mon temps (1885), in which Jean Gigoux quotes numerous artists’ anecdotes.
- in note 10:
...let) and biographical details it does resemble Gigoux’s book. Since it includes the saying ‘Japon...
- in translation:
I’ve just read a few books in the style of Gigoux’s Souvenirs, which my friend in Eindhoven had s...
- 547 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, Monday, 14 December 1885.
- in translation:
...€” provided models for painters, for Scheffer, Gigoux, Delacroix, she says for instance, and to anoth...
- 555 To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 28 January 1886.
- in note 4:
A reference to Jean Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps. See letters 494, n. 2 and 526, n...
- 559 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Saturday, 6 February 1886.
- in note 2:
Taken from Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps. See letter 494, n. 2.
- 561 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 11 February 1886.
- in note 1:
Derived from an anecdote about Delacroix in Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: see lett...
- 655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
- in note 18:
Van Gogh knew this quotation from Jean Gigoux, Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps: see letter 52...
- 856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
- in note 7:
...s to something Van Gogh had read in 1885 in Jean Gigoux’s Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps ...
1 essay item found
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
- in letter_writer_4:
...¨ne Delacroix. Documents nouveaux, and Jean-François Gigoux’s Causeries sur les artistes de mon t...
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1885:
April
#Vincent has read Gigoux’s Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps (492).
Term(s):
Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Jean (Jean-François) Gigoux (1806-1894) French writer and artist
Sorted by:
date