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029 To Theo van Gogh. London, between Monday, 4 January and Friday, 5 March 1875.
in translation:
... beautiful things at the moment: Jules Dupré, Michel, Daubigny, Maris, Israëls, Mauve, Bisschop, &c...
030 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 6 March 1875.
in translation:
...narrow white strip above the horizon – is by Michel. Except that the atmosphere is purer and nobler...
in note 2:
This landscape, which Van Gogh describes as Michel-like, occurs in a passage in which Hetty sets out ...
044 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 4 September 1875.
in translation:
...lose it with yours. I’ve bought a book about Michel, with etchings after his paintings; I’ll send...
Give the book on Michel to Mr Tersteeg to read, too.
in note 2:
... copy vary in number from seventeen to twenty. Michel is described in the biography as an artist of h...
045 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 7 September 1875.
in translation:
... thank you for the lithographs and the book by Michel that you’ve promised me; I’m eager to see t...
053 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 30 September 1875.
in translation:
Herewith the book about Michel that I promised you, also an etching after the Margaret by Scheffer an...
066 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Monday, 17 January 1876.
in translation:
...uve that he should ask you for that book about Michel; please show it to him sometime when it suits y...
073 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 28 March 1876.
in translation:
Yesterday I saw around 6 paintings by Michel, how I wish you’d been there, sunken roads through san...
...chings after Millet, and the same number after Michel, and masses after Dupré and Corot and all othe...
in note 5:
...7 etchings after works by Millet, 29 after Georges Michel, the same number after Jules Dupré, and 28...
in note 2:
As emerges from what follows, Van Gogh saw Michel’s paintings at Durand-Ruel’s gallery. It is imp...
074 Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, Vincent van Gogh and Theodorus van Gogh to Theo van Gogh. Etten, Tuesday, 4 April 1876.
in translation:
...f Burgomaster Six, and also especially about Michel. Won’t there be a possibility for Pa to see t...
119 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 June 1877.
in translation:
...tiful it was there in the twilight. Rembrandt, Michel and others have painted it, the ground dark, th...
129 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 4 September 1877.
in translation:
... could sparkle so when we saw the paintings of Michel and others or talked of ‘many things’. Yes,...
143 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 3 April 1878.
in note 22:
Georges Michel painted numerous landscapes, a number of which appear in the series of reproductions p...
in translation:
...ence), or his Apothecary, or The large oaks by Dupré, or even the mills and sand flats by Michel?
152 To Theo van Gogh. Wasmes, on or about Thursday, 19 June 1879.
in translation:
...s that remind one of paintings by Rembrandt or Michel or Ruisdael. But on the occasion of that storm ...
157 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Tuesday, 7 September 1880.
in translation:
...you still own the book with the etchings after Michel, lend it to me too sometime, but it’s not urg...
291 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Monday, 4 and Saturday, 9 December 1882.
in translation:
... think of people like Van Goyen, Old Crome and Michel. How beautiful an Isaac Ostade or a Ruisdael is...
in note 14:
...ers. Inspired by Van Goyen, Crome painted like Michel (one of the forerunners of the Barbizon School ...
312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.
in translation:
... no doubt has those curious effects painted by Michel, for example, i.e. that withered grass and sand...
These are not things one finds by chance (Michel’s work is abundant enough, and from it I see clear...
369 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 29 and Monday, 30 July 1883.
in translation:
...ese days. The flat areas there behind Loosduinen, it’s just like Michel, and the lonely beach too.
392 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Wednesday, 3 October 1883.
in translation:
...e the banks of the canal as miles and miles of Michels or T. Rousseaus, say, Van Goyens or P. de Koni...
...doesn’t feel it until one has miles and miles of Michels between oneself and the everyday. Michel
395 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Friday, 12 or Saturday, 13 October 1883.
in translation:
...at it. As to colour, things often remind me of Michel too. You know, he also has a grey sky (slate-gr...
396 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 15 October 1883.
in translation:
...s, but I do dare say that once you’ve gone that far you’ll find your own way from there. Michel
... saw the top one today, was wholly and utterly Michel. That earth was superb in reality. I don’t th...
...tirely here. Through and through, you know, renew everything, everything, through and through.Michel
...won’t hear much of it, a 6-hour walk through Michel landscapes lies between you and the everyday wo...
401 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Wednesday, 31 October 1883.
in translation:
...were living in the age of Van Goyen, Ruisdael, Michel; in short, in what one scarcely finds now even ...
432 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 2 March 1884.
in translation:
...t in return: aren’t you too preoccupied with Michel? (I’m talking here about the study of the lit...
...urchyard nor at the sod huts did I think about Michel, I thought about the subject I was looking at. ...
...tainly don’t put myself on a par with master Michel — but I definitely don’t therefore imitate ...
507 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 9 June 1885.
in translation:
...ottages — perhaps you’ll say imitations of Michel, although they aren’t — and searching for s...
in note 15:
...uarrel that had blown up when Theo described Vincent’s work as Michel imitations: see letter 432.
623 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 12 June 1888.
in translation:
Or it’s like something by Michel or like Jules Dupré, but it’s really quite different from rose ...
779 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 June 1889.
in translation:
Is a Van Goyen ugly because it’s painted all in oils with very little neutral colour, or a Michel?
896 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-sur-Oise, Wednesday, 2 July 1890.
in translation:
...ndscape with the fields, a subject like one of Michel’s – but then the coloration is soft green, ...
897 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 5 July 1890.
in translation:
The croquis of the landscape à la Michel is promising, and the portrait must be superb.

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Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
...llet and Jules Breton as peasant painters, Georges Michel as a landscapist, Delacroix and Monticelli ...

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