19 letters found
- 017 To Theo van Gogh. London, beginning of January 1874.
- in translation:
..., Meissonier, Zamacois, Madrazo, Ziem, Boudin, Gérôme, Fromentin, De Tournemine, Pasini.
- 275 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, between about Tuesday, 24 and about Friday, 27 October 1882.
- in note 18:
...en pp. 236 and 237. Ill. 945. A print by Eugène Fromentin appeared in Harper’s Weekly 25 (‘for ...
- 342 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 10 May 1883.
- in note 12:
Eugène Fromentin, Bataille de fellahs (Battle of fellahs; present whereabouts unknown) was exhibited...
- in translation:
Saw a big Fromentin, a battle of fellahs, in the window at G&C.
Still, Fromentin is clever — and a seeker, and someone who carries through, and conscientious too.
- 448 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 29 May 1884.
- in note 4:
...les Blanc, Les artistes de mon temps and Eugène Fromentin, Les maîtres d’autrefois: Belgique –...
- 450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
- in note 6:
Van Gogh based this remark on a passage in Fromentin’s Les maîtres d’autrefois (1876) where he ...
- in note 3:
... Les maîtres d’autrefois (1876) by Eugène Fromentin contains an overview of the old Dutch and...
- in translation:
I read Les maîtres d’autrefois by Fromentin with great pleasure. And in different places in that b...
Fromentin says of Ruisdael that people nowadays are much more advanced in technique than he was. They...
... good works by people like, say, the book by Fromentin on the Dutch painters, or if you remember any...
- 459 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, Sunday, 21 September 1884.
- in note 1:
...les Blanc, Les artistes de mon temps and Eugène Fromentin, Les maîtres d’autrefois. Van Rappard ...
- in translation:
...y returning the book by Blanc and the one by Fromentin. As I said, as a consequence of reading Artis...
- 494 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 18 April 1885.
- in note 1:
...Theo as early as June 1884 (see letter 449). Fromentin also wrote about ‘value’ and the effect o...
- 497 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 30 April 1885.
- in note 6:
... had read not long before this (letter 450), Fromentin observed that Ruisdael’s The mill at Wijk b...
- 534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
- in note 15:
Fromentin had described Rembrandt’s inimitable spirit in similar terms in Les maîtres d’autrefoi...
Fromentin had described Rembrandt’s inimitable spirit in similar terms in Les maîtres d’autrefoi...
- 535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
- in note 3:
...t’s Syndics in Les maîtres d’autrefois, Fromentin referred to the rapid execution, the broad br...
- 536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
- in note 17:
Fromentin in Les maîtres d’autrefois had also called Hals, Veronese, Rubens and Velázquez true co...
- in note 26:
In this context Fromentin had written in Les maîtres d’autrefois: ‘There are men, witness Veláz...
- 543 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 20 November 1885.
- in note 4:
...ens as against the human Rembrandt echo what Fromentin and Thoré had written about them. See Fromen...
- in note 3:
Fromentin had also praised this painting in Les maîtres d’autrefois: he asserted that one had enou...
- 615 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 May 1888.
- in note 15:
... for Rembrandt’s Jan Six: letter 47, n. 8. Fromentin had also written about Six in Les maîtres dâ...
- 622 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1888.
- in note 11:
Fromentin had painted in Algeria; Gérôme in Turkey, Greece and Egypt.
- in translation:
...he effect of a more intense blue in the sky. Fromentin and Gérôme see the earth in the south as co...
- 649 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
- in note 15:
Van Gogh’s description contains echoes of Fromentin’s, where he remarks in Les maîtres d’autre...
- in note 13:
...escribed collections in the Netherlands. Eugène Fromentin wrote Les maîtres d’autrefois (1876), ...
- in translation:
However, it’s Frenchmen, C. Blanc, Thoré, Fromentin, certain others, who have written better than ...
- 684 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Wednesday, 19 and Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
- in translation:
...outh, that was done so drily by Gérôme and Fromentin, is from this place on essentially a region w...
- 726 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 17 or Tuesday, 18 December 1888.
- in translation:
...™ve been right in the midst of magic, for as Fromentin says so well, Rembrandt is above all a magici...
- 801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
- in translation:
What a great man Fromentin was – for those who want to see the orient he will always remain the gui...
- in note 23:
Fromentin was known for his paintings of Oriental subjects, inspired by his travels around North Afri...
- 853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.
- in note 13:
...rs, rather than the Guillaumets, the insipid Fromentins and the muddy Gérômes?’ (Longtemps, il s...
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- Chronology
- in 1884:
...ssin, architecture, sculpture, peinture, and Fromentin’s Les maîtres d’autrefois (449, 454, 450...
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Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876) French artist and writer
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