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583 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 9 March 1888.
in original text:
...eu occasion d’apprendre ce que c’est que ce mistral aussi. J’ai fait plusieurs courses dans les...
in translation:
...already had an opportunity to find out what this mistral’s like too. I’ve been out on several hikes...
in date note:
...milder’. Following a period of cold and the mistral, after a slight improvement on 8 March the weather...
in note 1:
The mistral is a cold, dry katabatic wind from the north-west or north, which blows in the Rhône valley and...
596 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 12 April 1888.
in original text:
...de roseaux, avec son abri (contre le mistral), des cypres noirs, avec ses legumes caracteristiques...
in translation:
...reed fences, with its shelter (against the mistral), black cypresses, with its typical vegetables...
602 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 1 May 1888.
in note 1:
...F 1472 / JH 1404) may have been made during the mistral Van Gogh mentioned (letter 605) and would...
603 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.
in original text:
...Nous avons énormement du vent et du mistral ici, actuellement 3 jours sur quatre, toujours avec du...
in translation:
...clear light. We have a tremendous amount of wind and mistral here, 3 days out of four at the moment...
605 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 May 1888.
in original text:
...t’ai déjà écrites. Il a fait beaucoup de mistral ici, alors j’ai fait la douzaine de petits...
in translation:
...the letters I’ve already written to you. The mistral’s been blowing hard here, so I’ve done a...
in date note:
...the weather had turned fine after a period of the mistral (ll. 48-52) and this improvement in the weather...
609 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 12 May 1888.
in original text:
...Hier & aujourd’hui nous avons de nouveau le mistral. J’espère que mon envoi arrivera avant que...
in translation:
...is marked UV and W1042. We’ve had the mistral again yesterday and today. I hope my consignment...
in date note:
...12 May. The weather reports also tell us that the mistral was blowing on 11 and 12 May, and Van Gogh...
612 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 22 May 1888.
in original text:
...de bords de route – après – faites en plein mistral. Si tu n’attendais pas ma réponse de...
in translation:
...of roadsides — afterwards — done out in the mistral. If you weren’t expecting my reply right...
in note 10:
...and Landscape with the edge of a road (F 567 / JH 1419). The mistral blew on 11 and 12 May (Météo-France).
623 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 12 June 1888.
in note 11:
...June: the weather was hot and sunny then, and the mistral was blowing – most probably the cause of the...
628 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 19 June 1888.
in original text:
...de 30 carrée. je l’ai peint en plein mistral. mon chevalet etait fixé en terre avec des piquets...
in translation:
...Square no. 30 canvas. I painted it out in the mistral. My easel was fixed in the ground with iron...
630 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 23 June 1888.
in original text:
...Genes, Antibes, où il y a moins de mistral, où les montagnes donnent un tout autre caractère...
in translation:
...Hyères, Genoa, Antibes, where there’s less mistral, where the mountains give a quite different...
633 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Wednesday, 27 June 1888.
in original text:
...a exécuté les dites études probablement lorsque le mistral soufflait. Ayant affaire à la même...
...pourquoi, puisque je suis sorti dehors en plein mistral exprès pour faire cela.– N’est-ce pas...
in translation:
...that he probably executed those studies when the mistral was blowing. Having to deal with the same...
...went outside to make it, out in the mistral. Isn’t it rather intensity of thought than calmness...
639 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 13 July 1888.
in original text:
...de lutter contre cette agaçante contrariété du mistral continuel, sans compter que j’ai pass...
...une peinture aussi – mais pas moyen avec le mistral de la faire, absolument pas possible. Voici...
...malgré des circonstances essentiellement ennuyeuses, le mistral et les moustiques. Si une vue fait...
in translation:
...against this infuriating nuisance of the constant mistral, not to mention that I’ve spent whole...
...but no means of doing it with the mistral, absolutely impossible. Now about this canvas — I’ve...
...spite of some essentially annoying circumstances, the mistral and the mosquitoes. If a view makes...
653 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in original text:
...veel en een heel nijdige zanikende wind, le mistral, meestal hinderlijk genoeg als ik er in moet...
in translation:
...though, and a very nasty, nagging wind, the mistral, usually troublesome enough when I have to paint...
656 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 6 August 1888.
in original text:
...dit que j’ai toujours à lutter contre le mistral qui empêche absolument d’être le maitre de...
in translation:
...that I always have to struggle against the mistral, which absolutely prevents one being in control...
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in original text:
...sur le Nord, le beau temps (car même le mistral est à voir du beau temps). Un soleil bien...
in translation:
...the north, the fine weather (because even the mistral is fine weather to look at). Really glorious...
662 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 15 August 1888.
in original text:
...qu’à ce que je pourrais sans le mistral et sans ces circonstances fatales de jeunesse évaporée...
in translation:
...with what I could do without the mistral, and without these inevitable circumstances of vanished...
663 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 18 August 1888.
in original text:
...dieu, il y a 3 quarts du temps le diable mistral. Le courrier de samedi est nom de Dieu passé et j...
in translation:
...quarters of the time there’s the devil of a mistral. Saturday’s post has gone by, damn it, and...
665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
in original text:
...ou plutôt une pochade faite en plein mistral. Ensuite, je cherche des chardons poussiereux avec...
in translation:
...or rather, a rough sketch done out in the mistral. Next, I’m attempting to do dusty thistles with...
671 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 29 or Thursday, 30 August 1888.
in original text:
...les modèles continuent tout de même, avec la tenacité du mistral d’ici cela ne m’egaie pas.
in translation:
...all the same, and what with the tenacity of the mistral down here, that doesn’t cheer me up.
680 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 11 September 1888.
in original text:
...la nature semble être en colère un jour de mistral méchant. Pour ce qui est de la maison cela...
in translation:
...seems to be in a rage, on a day of nasty mistral. As far as the house is concerned, the fact that...
682 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in original text:
...car le temps est superbe, superbe. Le mistral y est toujours mais il y a des intervalles de calme et alors c’est admirable. Si nous avions moins de mistral ce pays serait reellement aussi beau et...
in translation:
...canvas, because the weather is superb, superb. The mistral is still there, but there are intervals of calm, and then it’s wonderful. If we had less mistral, this part of the country would really be...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in original text:
...ou enfin tu trouveras une occasion. Quand il fait du mistral c’est pourtant juste le contraire d’un doux pays ici car le mistral est d’un agaçant.– Mais quelle revanche, quelle revanche...
in translation:
...or you’ll find some opportunity, anyway. When the mistral’s blowing, though, it’s the very opposite of a pleasant land here, because the mistral’s really aggravating. But what a compensation...
691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
in original text:
...tre plus harmonieuse. Mais ce sacré mistral est bien gênant pour faire des touches qui se...
in translation:
...continued to be more harmonious. But this bloody mistral is a real nuisance for doing brushstrokes...
696 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in original text:
...portrait de moi et un paysage en colère de mistral méchant. Puis j’aurais une étude de petit...
in translation:
...of myself and a landscape angry with a nasty mistral. Then I would have a study of a little garden...
698 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Friday, 5 October 1888.
in original text:
...eu un mal du diable pour la faire avec un mistral agaçant (comme l’etude en rouge et vert aussi...
in translation:
...the devil’s own job to do it with an irritating mistral (like the study in red and green, as well...
in note 9:
...would have been the ‘red sunset’ mentioned later in this letter (see n. 15 below). Van Gogh described it in letter 696 as ‘a landscape angry with a nasty mistral’ (un paysage en colère de mistral méchant).
in note 15:
...nature seems to be in a rage, on a day of nasty mistral’, but the descriptions do not completely match...
699 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 8 October 1888.
in original text:
...la mer à Stes Maries.– Nous avons le mistral impitoyable en plein ici actuellement – c’est...
...le beau temps va se présenter. Nous avons du mistral fort impitoyable mais je dois me tenir prêt...
...qu’il faut profiter des intervalles que laisse le mistral et etre prêt d’avance. Mon cher Theo...
...pas le cas ces dernières journées – du mistral impitoyable qui balaye les feuille mortes avec...
...jours que j’espere fin semaine après le mistral. Ci joint encore une lettre que j’écrivais...
in translation:
...the sea at Saintes-Maries. We have the full pitiless mistral here at the moment — it’s very bad...
...fine weather comes along. We have a really pitiless mistral but I have to be ready; work gets done...
...have to take advantage of the intervals the mistral leaves, and be ready beforehand. My dear Theo...
...t the case these past few days — merciless mistral that sweeps the dead leaves with fury. But...
...for at the end of the week, after the mistral. Enclosed herewith another letter that I’ve been...
703 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 13 October 1888.
in date note:
...704 that he painted the five canvases before the mistral – which blew up again on 14 October...
704 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 15 October 1888.
in original text:
...rien faire mais d’ailleurs il fait un mistral de très grande violence qui soulève des nuages de...
...travaillé plus tranquillement tu vois bien que le mistral m’aurait encore surpris. Ah s’il...
...une réunion litteraire et artistique, Clovis Hugues, Mistral, d’autres qui ecrivent en provencal...
in translation:
...but in any case there’s a very violent mistral, which raises clouds of dust that turns the trees...
...worked more calmly, you can see clearly that the mistral would have caught me out again. Ah, if the...
...are a literary and artistic circle: Clovis Hugues, Mistral, others, who write quite good, even...
in date note:
...39-41). He also writes that he cannot work because of the ‘very violent mistral’ (ll. 27-28). The weather records show the mistral blowing on 14 October, becoming worse on 15 October (Météo-France). We have...
in note 13:
...starting in Avignon; he visited Frédéric Mistral and travelled with him to Salon-de-Provence. There...
in note 14:
...Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Anselme Mathieu, Frédéric Mistral, Joseph Roumanille, Alphonse Tavan and Paul Giera...
706 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 17 October 1888.
in original text:
...jours de mistral. J’ai fait mettre le gaz dans l’atelier pour que nous ayons une bonne lumière en hiver. Peutêtre serez vous desenchanté d’Arles si vous y venez par un temps de mistral mais...
...pris d’une rage de peindre, dans les intervalles du mistral, les effets d’automne. et que vous...
in translation:
...when the mistral blows. I’ve had gas put in the studio, so that we’ll have good light in winter. Perhaps you’ll be disillusioned with Arles if you come at a time when the mistral’s blowing...
...the autumn effects, in between spells of the mistral. And that you’ll understand that I’ve...
718 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 10 November 1888.
in original text:
...nature, surtout lorsqu’on travaille par un temps de mistral. Je crois ne pas encore t’avoir dit...
in translation:
...from nature, especially when I’m working in mistral conditions. I don’t think I’ve yet told...
in date note:
...wind during these days, apart from a moderate mistral on 10 November (Météo-France), which makes that...
744 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 30 January 1889.
in date note:
...with no wind’ (ll. 92-93) – after the mistral it was in fact almost completely calm from 28-31...
745 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 3 February 1889.
in original text:
Tu me demande si j’ai lu la Mireille de Mistral – je suis comme toi, je ne peu pas la lire que par...
in translation:
You ask me if I’ve read Mistral’s Mireille – I’m like you, I can only read it in fragments of the...
in note 4:
Frédéric Mistral’s Mirèio. Pouèmo prouvençau (1859) is an epic poem of twelve cantos, written in...
752 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 24 March 1889.
in note 1:
...mistral blowing, which might have irritated him. He wanted to drink a litre of turpentine that was standing on the table in the room. It was time to return to the hospital.’ (Toute la journée il me parla peinture, littérature, socialisme. Le soir il était un peu fatigué. Il faisait un coup de mistral effroyable qui a pu l’énerver. Il voulut boire à même un litre d’essence de térébenthine qui se trouvait sur la table de la chambre. Il était temps de rentrer à l’hospice.) See Coquiot 1923, p. 194 (also included in Verzamelde brieven 1973, vol. 3, p. 417). Later on, paint became a threat to Van Gogh’s health; see letter 794, n. 1 and letters 835 and 838...
757 Paul Signac to Vincent van Gogh. Cassis, Friday, 12 April 1889.
in original text:
Je suis bien gêné par le temps: pluie ou mistral depuis quelques jours. Je profite de ce contre-temps pour...
in translation:
I’m much hindered by the weather: rain or mistral for several days. I’m taking advantage of this setback...
765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
in note 4:
...mistral and the March rain have knocked down, forgotten in this lonely place. (Ce cimetière, il était difficile de le rendre avec un sentiment plus vrai de désolation. Un pan de terre morne, aride, que clôturent des murailles grises et sur lequel le soleil torride de juillet jette sa dévorante lumière. Nulle fleur sur les tombes nues, pas un arbuste qui les abrite, pas un cyprès qui les protège. Des pierres poudreuses donnant naissance, à travers leurs fissures, à quelques herbes sauvages au milieu desquelles courent de petits lézards. Là-bas, dans le coin, un fossoyeur, le pied sur sa bêche, car il vient de creuser une fosse, et s’épongeant le front. Çà et là des clédas que le mistral et la pluie de mars ont bouleversés dans l’oubli de cette solitude.) Nandyfer, ‘Chronique’, Le Petit Provençal. Journal Politique Quotidien, 29 April 1889. See Martin Bailey, ‘Van Gogh et Marseille. L’impossible voyage’. Exhib. cat. Van Gogh Monticelli. Marseille (Centre de la Vieille Charité), 2008-2009. Marseille 2008, pp. 129-135. The artist from Marseille who had committed suicide (Van Gogh mentions him later in the letter) is identified in the article with his initial: ‘D...
777 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, between about Friday, 31 May and about Thursday, 6 June 1889.
in original text:
...voudrais les attrapper mieux qu’à Arles. Le mistral (puisqu’ici il y a quelques montagnes) me...
in translation:
...like to capture better than in Arles. The mistral (since there are a few mountains here) appears...
788 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, between about Monday, 8 July and about Friday, 12 July 1889.
in original text:
...is. Verder hebben we zeer dikwijls veel wind, le mistral. Ik heb op ’t heetst van den dag in de...
in translation:
...s more, we very often have a strong wind, the mistral. I’ve painted in the wheatfields during the...
790 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 July 1889.
in original text:
...Les réalités de cette sorte ça doit être comme enfin un bon coup de mistral, peu flatteur mais...
in translation:
...of Paris. Realities of this sort must anyway be like a good gust of the mistral, not very soothing, but...
801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
in original text:
...et ainsi pour la mer fouettée par un dur mistral et parcequ’il s’est dû dire, ces gens...
in translation:
...the same for the sea whipped up by a hard mistral, and because he must have said to himself, these...
806 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 28 September 1889.
in original text:
...pas mal – mais ensuite lorsque les jours de mistral et de pluie sont venues j’ai préféré la...
in translation:
...t bad – but afterwards, when the days of mistral and rain came, I preferred the canvas done from...
819 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 16 November 1889.
in original text:
...déjà à faire hiver içi. Est ce que le mistral souffle à St Remy comme à Arles? Bonne poignée...
in translation:
...regards. Winter’s already starting here. Does the mistral blow in St-Rémy as it does in Arles...
820 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 19 November 1889.
in original text:
...montagnes un peu davantage abrité contre le mistral. Et entre temps je travaille toujours.– J...
in translation:
...however we’re a little more sheltered from the mistral by the mountains. And between times I keep...
829 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 19 December 1889.
in original text:
...encore travailler un peu dehors, il fait du mistral.– Vers le moment du coucher du soleil cela se...
in translation:
...I’m going to work some more outside, the mistral’s blowing. It usually dies down by the time...
834 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Friday, 3 January 1890.
in original text:
...C’est l’etude faite par une journée de mistral – j’avais calé mon chevalet avec des grosses...
in translation:
...ravine. This is the study done on a day when the mistral was blowing – I had wedged my easel in place...
853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.
in original text:
...au coin d’un champ de blé par une journée de mistral d’été. C’est donc la note d’un...
in translation:
...of a wheatfield on a summer’s day when the mistral is blowing. It is therefore the note of a...

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