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450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
in translation:
...lanc says in Les artistes de mon temps about Velázquez’s technique was very interesting — that h...
in note 15:
... book he says that, viewed from close to, ‘Velázquez is not exactly a great colourist, in the sens...
515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
in translation:
... they ever try to make ‘a labourer’? Did Velázquez try it in his water-carrier? Or his folk type...
in note 15:
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, The waterseller, c. 1620 (London, Wellington Museum. The Boar...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in note 26:
...res d’autrefois: ‘There are men, witness Velázquez, who colour beautifully, with the dreariest o...
in translation:
...urist among the colourists, a colourist like Veronese, like Rubens, like Delacroix, like Velázquez.
...randt and Hals, didn’t they use black? And Velázquez??? Not just one, but twenty-seven blacks, I a...
in note 17:
...s had also called Hals, Veronese, Rubens and Velázquez true colourists (see Fromentin 1902, chapter ...
546 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Sunday, 6 December 1885.
in translation:
...k me like an amazingly beautiful Jordaens or Velázquez or — Goya — was one in black silk, probab...
598 To John Peter Russell. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.
in translation:
...d Titian – Colour. The thing undertaken by Velázquez and Goya to be continued and – more fully o...
in note 14:
Van Gogh admired Velázquez for his use of grey half-tones. He had read about his use of colour in Ch...
603 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.
in translation:
... figures here as lovely as those of Goya and Velázquez. They know how to stick a touch of pink on a ...
632 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Tuesday, 26 June 1888.
in translation:
... for the same reason that the Greeks do, and Velázquez, and so many other naturalists. Christ — al...
649 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
in translation:
...pale blue, pearl grey is as characteristic of him as the black, white, grey, pink is of Velázquez.
651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
in translation:
...ither you nor I can have a full idea of what Velázquez and Goya were like as men and as painters, be...
...randt’s colour is as to give a name to the Velázquez greys; we could say, for want of something be...
in note 1:
... here thinking above all of the paintings by Velázquez and Goya in the Louvre, with which he and Ber...
658 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 9 August 1888.
in translation:
...t know if I’m describing it clearly enough, but that’s what I’ve seen here of real Velázquez.
in note 8:
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, The fable of Arachne, c. 1657 (Madrid, Museo Nacional del Pra...
686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.
in note 22:
...he large number of engravers of prints after Velázquez, it is not possible to determine who he might...
in translation:
...graver like the one who engraved the work of Velázquez were to do a fine etching of them. Be that as...
801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
in translation:
...ave no great need to see works by Titian and Velázquez in museums, I’ve seen certain living types ...
815 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 25 October 1889.
in translation:
... something like the works of Prévost , who copied little-known Goyas and Velázquez for Mr Doria.
in note 10:
...mention of copies by Prévost after Goya and Velázquez. See Collection M. le comte Armand Doria. 2 v...
852 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 9 February 1890.
in note 7:
For the Salon Carré, see letter 567, n. 2. Velázquez’s painting formerly hung in the room contain...
in note 6:
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, The Infanta Margarita, daughter of Philip iv, king of Spain ...

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