Back to site

RM04 Note to Theo van Gogh. Probably between 1875 and 1878.

metadata
No. RM04 (Brieven 1990 -, Complete Letters )
From: Vincent van Gogh
To: Theo van Gogh
Date: unknown, probably between 1875-1878

Source status
Original manuscript

Location
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. no. b1467 V/1962

Date
This loose sheet bearing a moralizing passage from the Bible most likely dates from Van Gogh’s religious period, i.e. between 1875 and 1878.

original text
 1r:1
Ge hebt het om niet ontvangen,geeft het om niet.1

translation
 1r:1
Freely ye have received, freely give.1
notes
1. Matt. 10:8.