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663 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 18 August 1888.
in translation:
...u’ll shortly make the acquaintance of Mr Patience Escalier — a sort of man with a hoe, an old Cam...
in note 1:
Patience Escalier has not been identified. Perhaps ‘Patience’ was a nickname; in that case a man...
664 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 19 or Monday, 20 August 1888.
in translation:
...ieve that the painting of the head of the old peasant is as strange in colour as the sower, but the ...
665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
in note 5:
...drawing was made after the second portrait of Escalier (F 444 / JH 1563) which dates from later in Au...
669 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
in note 14:
The gardener Patience Escalier had posed for the paintingPatience Escalier (‘The peasant’) (F 443...
671 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 29 or Thursday, 30 August 1888.
in translation:
... models this week, an Arlésienne and the old peasant, whom I’m doing this time against a bright o...
in note 1:
The ‘old peasant’ is Patience Escalier, who had previously posed for Van Gogh; see letter 663. Th...
676 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 8 September 1888.
in translation:
...ation of the sower, as is the head of the old peasant and of the poet, if I manage to do the latter ...
in note 12:
Van Gogh had painted two portraits of the peasant: Patience Escalier (‘The peasant’) (F 443 / JH ...

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