8 letters found

1. 726 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 17 or Tuesday, 18 December 1888.

   in translation:

   ...er to see the museum there, and especially the Bruyas room — there are many portraits of Bruyas, by...

   Bruyas was a benefactor to artists, and this is all I’ll say to you: in the Delacroix portrait, heâ...

   ...em to me that this figure (by Delacroix) must have some relationship to this fine Bruyas portrait.

   ...Gauguin and I have been to see the portrait of Bruyas by Delacroix at Montpellier, for we must boldly...

   in note 9:

   Portraits of Bruyas ‘by others too’ must refer to the three portraits by Auguste Glaize. See cat....

   in note 7:

   ...e). Ill. 1401. Verdier gave Christ the facial features of Bruyas. See cat. Montpellier 1926, p. 240.

   in note 4:

   The Musée Fabre had three portraits of Bruyas by Courbet, one dating from 1853, half-length: Alfred ...

   in note 1:

   ...he west of Arles, housed the collection of Alfred Bruyas. This wealthy collector had become known ma...

2. 732 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 January 1889.

   in translation:

   ..., how I wish that you’d seen the portrait of Bruyas by Delacroix and the whole museum at Montpellie...

3. 735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.

   in translation:

   ...s, and that we’re therefore simply continuing what Monticelli and Bruyas began in the south.Bruyas

   in note 8:

   For the collector and Maecenas Alfred Bruyas, see letter 726, n. 1.

4. 743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.

   in translation:

   ...a lamp before our feet in the powerful work of Bruyas of Montpellier, who has done so much to create ...

   in note 9:

   Regarding the collector and Maecenas Alfred Bruyas of Montpellier, see letter 726, n. 1.

5. 765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.

   in translation:

   Anyway, there have been more than us before, Bruyas in Montpellier gave an entire fortune to it and a...

   in note 11:

   Regarding Bruyas and his bequest to the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, see letter 726, n. 1. The ‘dee...

6. 798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.

   in note 20:

   For the Maecenas Bruyas and his collection in the Musée Fabre at Montpellier, see letter 726, n. 1.

   in translation:

   I think that if you see the Bruyas museum in Montpellier one day, I think that then nothing will move...

7. 800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.

   in translation:

   ...the sleeping spinner – were the portraits of Bruyas by Delacroix and by Ricard, then the Daniel, De...

8. 865 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 1 May 1890.

   in note 10:

   Van Gogh thought that the Maecenas Alfred Bruyas had been of great importance to the painting of the ...

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