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103 letters found

004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873.
in translation:
Last Sunday I was at Uncle Cor’s and had a very pleasant day there and, as you can well imagine, sa...
in note 2:
Cornelis (Cor) Marinus van Gogh, brother of Mr van Gogh and often called ‘C.M.’ by family members...
019 To Theo van Gogh. London, Friday, 20 February 1874.
in translation:
...rue. I’m glad you went to Amsterdam; thank Uncle Cor when you see him for the brochure he sent me....
in note 4:
Theo visited Uncle Cor in Amsterdam on 8 February 1874 (FR b2687).
021 To Theo van Gogh. London, Monday, 30 March 1874.
in translation:
I’m glad that you go to Uncle Cor’s occasionally. You see things there that you never find at the...
033 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 8 May 1875.
in translation:
C.M. and Mr Tersteeg were here and left again last Saturday. In my opinion they went a little too oft...
044 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 4 September 1875.
in translation:
...��d like to ask you to give it in my name to Uncle Cor to read, when you have the opportunity of cou...
047 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 12 September 1875.
in translation:
... window, reading. I know that Uncle Vincent and Cor like it very much, and I sometimes think that th...
059 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 4 December 1875.
in translation:
Do you ever visit Uncle Cor? If he should ever invite you, accept by all means, and give him my regar...
065 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 10 January 1876.
in note 2:
...hat to discuss matters. Yesterday he went to Uncle Cor to talk things over with him as well, he is a...
081 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Saturday, 6 May 1876.
in translation:
...ontact with families; in Amsterdam she would find this at once through Uncle Cor and Uncle Stricker.
Do you still visit Uncle Cor now and then? Sometimes I long to see him so much; just yesterday I wrot...
106 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Thursday, 8 March 1877.
in translation:
...both to go to Amsterdam next Sunday to visit Uncle Cor. If it’s all right with you, then I’ll co...
Herewith a few words for Uncle Cor, add something to it if you like. It’s already late, this aftern...
in note 4:
Uncle Cor had taken the initiative in suggesting that both brothers come and visit him, and had writt...
107 To Cornelis Marinus van Gogh. Dordrecht, Thursday, 8 March 1877.
in translation:
My dear Uncle,
..., please write a postcard to one of us, and believe me meanwhile, after warm regards to you and Aunt
108 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Friday, 16 March 1877.
in translation:
Be sure to give my regards to Uncle Cor and Aunt.
in note 1:
Theo was staying with Uncle Cor (FR b2514). Vincent went to visit them on Sunday, 18 March and left t...
109 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Friday, 23 March 1877.
in translation:
In the morning I went with Uncle Cor to see Uncle Stricker, where we had a long talk about you-know-w...
111 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Sunday, 15 April 1877.
in note 12:
...’ve heard nothing more from Amsterdam from Uncle Cor or Uncle Stricker, whom we long to hear from....
114 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 19 May 1877.
in translation:
Yesterday Uncle Cor sent me a batch of old paper, such as the sheet on which I’m writing to you. Is...
...ertsen as well as that of Pa or Uncle Jan or Uncle Cor — Rembrandt, Millet, Bosboom and how many o...
115 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 21 and Tuesday, 22 May 1877.
in note 13:
...st of Amsterdam, was undertaken to visit Uncle Cor van Gogh, who lived in a villa there (cf. FR b2727...
123 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 27 July 1877.
in translation:
...ere in the dunes must have been pleasant. In Uncle Cor’s shop I recently saw The Gospels by Bida, ...
125 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 3 August 1877.
in translation:
...ull of people, Uncle and Aunt Pompe and Jan, Uncle Cor and Vincent, Fanny and Bet ’s Graeuwen and ...
...le Jan has it in another form, and it’s in Uncle Cor as well, among a hundred people one wouldn’...
in note 19:
...beginning of August; from there he went with Uncle Cor to an exhibition in Leeuwarden (FR b2547, 1 A...
126 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 5 August 1877.
in note 6:
For Uncle Cor’s villa at Baarn, see letter 158, n. 11.
129 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 4 September 1877.
in translation:
...t from a French edition I’ve borrowed from Uncle Cor, that book is sublime, and he who wrote it mu...
...ave no secrets. In the life of Uncle Jan, of Uncle Cor, of Uncle Vincent, there is much, much good a...
130 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 7 September 1877.
in translation:
...he alone to Van der Hoop, and he was also at Uncle Cor’s gallery (who isn’t in town, however) an...
in note 1:
The bookshop and art dealership of C.M. van Gogh was located at Keizersgracht 453.
131 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 18 September 1877.
in note 17:
...ist of subscribers (p. 488), it appears that Uncle Cor had ordered ten copies of this work for his b...
133 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 30 October 1877.
in translation:
I was at Uncle Cor’s on Monday evening, and also saw Aunt and the whole family, all send you their ...
...ear description. Saw a small painting of his at C.M.’s, also one by Mauve, very beautiful, shepher...
134 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 19 November 1877.
in translation:
Spent two evenings at Uncle Cor’s, once to look at old books (including volumes of L’Illustration...
Then I was also at Uncle Cor’s on Aunt’s birthday, i.e. last Friday, they played cards that eveni...
...on’t come yet I’m here’. Uncle Jan and Uncle Cor were already set to go there together, now th...
...gth and vigour we need every day. Uncle Jan, Uncle Cor and the Stricker family send you their regard...
135 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 24 and Sunday, 25 November 1877.
in translation:
...en of Scotland. Yesterday evening I was at Uncle Cor’s and saw them again there – thus Elijah’...
...te from Brussels and later telegraphed to both Uncles to come. When the letter arrived, Uncle Jan had...
Uncle Cor told me about a walk he took with Uncle Jan in the Bois de Cambre. You know that gnarled un...
... reading it this evening at the station, waiting for the train on which Uncle Cor was due to arrive.
Saw at Uncle Cor’s a new engraving after Erskine Nicol, ‘Sabbath’, an old woman going home in t...
...ust have looked like Pa or like Uncle Jan or Uncle Cor. God, the only One that is True, is not of ye...
Now, from Uncle Cor I’ve received A child’s history of England by Dickens, don’t know if I’ve...
...lot of nice people in the bookselling business, C.M., Mr Braat, Schröder here (Mendes gets his books...
in note 18:
In those days Uncle Cor’s bookshop and art dealership were located at Keizersgracht 453.
in note 17:
Uncle Jan and Uncle Cor.
in note 62:
Jan Willem Wierda, an employee in Uncle Cor’s bookshop. See Groot and De Vries 1990, pp. 87-89.
136 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 3 and Tuesday, 4 December 1877.
in translation:
... the map of the world. Perhaps you know that Uncle Cor also has one lying in the room in which that ...
in note 35:
... determine which drawing by Johannes Bosboom Uncle Cor had at this time; four drawings with ‘sacri...
137 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 9 December 1877.
in translation:
...now more about the evening in question. From Uncle Cor I received Bossuet, Oraisons funèbres, in a ...
...rvice this morning, i.e. in the Eilandskerk, Uncle Cor was there too. The text was ‘by Thy light s...
in note 8:
...hich makes it difficult to say which edition Uncle Cor gave Vincent; one of the editions containing ...
139 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 9 and Thursday, 10 January 1878.
in translation:
...e and sound on Monday evening and found Uncle Cor’s family playing cards at Uncle Jan’s. When Unc...
Saw a great many good drawings at Uncle Cor’s, including a new one by Rochussen, a diplomatic soir�...
C.M. asked me if I didn’t find the Phryné by Gérôme beautiful, and I said I would much rather se...
And then C.M. asked if I wouldn’t feel anything for a woman or a girl who was beautiful, but I said...
At C.M.’s there was also a beautiful drawing by Maris, townscape with water in the foreground and a...
Uncle Jan and Uncle Cor send you their warm regards, Uncle Jan is well again, you know that he wasn�...
in note 14:
...he market by Goupil, and it is possible that Uncle Cor owned one. See Ackerman 1986, pp. 54-55, 59, ...
in note 1:
...��To our great sorrow I heard yesterday from Uncle Cor, whom I met at Princenhage, that you are not ...
140 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 10 February 1878.
in translation:
... we went together to Mendes, Uncle Stricker, Uncle Cor, Vos and Kee and both Meijjes families, and t...
...impression on Pa as well. In the evening, at Uncle Cor’s, we saw drawings and books, including Dor...
141 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 18 and Tuesday, 19 February 1878.
in translation:
Yesterday evening at C.M.’s I saw a whole year of that magazine L’Art, of which you have the issu...
...e afternoon and evening of Sunday, 17 Feb. at Uncle Cor’s, where Aunt Antje is staying these days.
...o rest a little, so I couldn’t see him. And then on to Uncle Stricker and after that to Uncle Cor.
142 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 3 March 1878.
in translation:
... pale and looks so tired, went from there to Uncle Cor’s again, he’s had the gallery newly wallp...
When Uncle told me about Daubigny, his etchings after Ruisdael, The bush and The ray of sunlight, cam...
149 To Theo van Gogh. Wasmes, Thursday, 26 December 1878.
in note 10:
...lled ‘large’, was in the possession of C.M. van Gogh; Vincent and Theo doubtless saw the drawing...
154 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Monday, 11 and Thursday, 14 August 1879.
in note 2:
.... Tomorrow he’s going with Pa to Princenhage; Cor’s boys will also be there to see the paintings...
158 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 24 September 1880.
in translation:
...spect as inhospitable and chilly and ascetic as C.M.’s Jovinda, which, between ourselves, I don’t...
in note 11:
Jovinda was the name of Uncle Cor’s villa at the corner of Prins Hendriklaan and Amalialaan ...
160 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Monday, 1 November 1880.
in translation:
...I certainly do — that either Uncle Cent or Uncle Cor will do something, if not as a concession to ...
in note 13:
...ch presumably concerned Uncle Vincent or Uncle Cor van Gogh, or perhaps the take-over of Uncle Hein�...
164 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Saturday, 2 April 1881.
in translation:
...gh are very rich, and that in the art business, C.M. and our uncle at Princenhage, and in which you a...
Now, Uncle Cor so often does things to help other draughtsmen, and would it now be so very unnatural ...
...k it to mean that I was planning to live out of C.M.’s pocket and, this being his interpretation, h...
...on, but we haven’t reached that point yet. If C.M. could be persuaded to give me a chance to learn ...
...he general public, but in fact even more so for C.M. and others, to change their minds about me, it�...
...r anything else, and I’d most likely run into C.M. there this summer, if he were to go there or to ...
...est, of course, if only you and Mr Tersteeg and C.M. and Pa and others I’m concerned with know bett...
...ingen or Katwijk would of course be possible if C.M. were to change his opinion of me, and then I cou...
in note 15:
...is probably referring to his discussion with Uncle Cor about Gérôme’s Phrynée, about which he w...
in note 14:
Uncle Cor and Uncle Vincent van Gogh.
193 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, on or about Friday, 23 December 1881.
in note 14:
...ten years ago now’ to show his drawings to Uncle Cor. ‘At the time I had...
204 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 13 February 1882.
in translation:
I also wrote to C.M. the other day to say I’d rented a studio here, and hoped that when he came to ...
205 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 18 February 1882.
in note 2:
...asures 33 x 26 cm. (The drawings he made for Uncle Cor, which are comparable in format, were also re...
206 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 25 February 1882.
in translation:
I’ve written to C.M. to tell him that I’d taken a studio here, and he wrote back saying that he e...
207 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 3 March 1882.
in translation:
I had a friendly letter from C.M. promising to come to The Hague soon and to visit me too. Well, that...
210 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
in translation:
...ng, promises to come by soon. So, it’s fine – it’s going well – it’ll get even better!C.M.
in note 10:
Uncle Cor ordered another set of six detailed townscapes at the beginning of April (see letter 214).
in note 8:
...series of 12 drawings that Van Gogh made for Uncle Cor: 1. Street scene, ‘Paddemoes’ (F 918 / JH...
211 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
in translation:
...o me this week by His Hon. I wrote to you about C.M.’s order, this is what happened. C.M. appeared ...
C.M. then kept quiet about earning one’s bread.
You understand that there C.M. touched a tender spot and ventured on to thin ice. I really can’t le...
C.M. had certainly not viewed Gavarni, at least, as a master.
(To anyone but C.M. I could have expressed myself more succinctly by saying: an artist’s work and h...
I was already beginning to fear that C.M. would hold it against me – but fortunately things took a ...
... you make more of those townscapes for me? said C.M. Certainly, because I amuse myself with them some...
C.M.’s order is a bright spot! I’ll try to do those drawings carefully and put some spirit into t...
Tomorrow morning I’ll go and look for a subject for one of those for C.M.
in note 3:
...(quotation), 22, 28. Regarding Van Gogh’s discussion with Uncle Cor, see also letters 228 and 236.
212 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 16 and on or about Monday, 20 March 1882.
in translation:
...Around that time I also hope to have the 12 for C.M. finished. If he pays for them straightaway tha...
I’ve made two more small drawings for C.M., a bit of Scheveningseweg and sand workers in the dunes....
213 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 March 1882.
in translation:
...rning till night. First, the small drawings for C.M. They’re finished and have been sent to him, bu...
214 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 2 April 1882.
in translation:
... often to bring him books or drawing materials. C.M. paid me, and a new order, but difficult enough, ...
in note 7:
...ly June on this new series of townscapes for Uncle Cor. The letter in which he says he has sent them...
218 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 18 or Wednesday, 19 April 1882.
in translation:
...ecause I can’t get on with the townscapes for C.M., which I’d otherwise capture in my spare momen...
220 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 23 April 1882.
in translation:
... Cent is ill. I’m working on the drawings for C.M., but I’ve been so depressed these days by what...
221 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 26 April 1882.
in translation:
...n impossible for me to make the townscapes for C.M., because of all the rain and wind. So I don’t ...
222 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 1 May 1882.
in note 10:
...ascertained. Roelofs sold his work through C.M. van Gogh and Goupil, which perhaps explains how Van ...
228 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 16 May 1882.
in translation:
...ays, ‘You are straying from the right way’? C.M. always talks about the right way too, just like ...
Then I’m a thousand miles away from C.M., J.P.S. and H.G.T., and much happier.
...starts all over again. Then I think: H.G.T. and C.M. would do so much better if they didn’t interfe...
...and goes limp as if paralyzed. Especially since C.M. has also made remarks about manners, I believe.
For C.M. I’ve done 12 drawings for 30 guilders, that’s 2.50 apiece. It’s a tricky job involving...
...hat do you advise: should I carry on with the order for C.M. or not? I didn’t know what to do.C.M.
in note 10:
...d earlier to a similar denigrating remark by Uncle Cor about Charles Degroux, and would do so again ...
229 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 18 May 1882.
in translation:
...as, I really hope, of course, to get to work on C.M.’s order, and have done the studies for it. I�...
230 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 23 May 1882.
in translation:
I’m working again on the drawings for C.M. But will he like them? Perhaps not. I can’t see such d...
231 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 27 May 1882.
in translation:
...ss with several drawings, so that the order for C.M. is well advanced, and as a result I’m in bette...
...awing in return. It was one of those meant for C.M., and so I was very glad to be able to get it rep...
... work for on the same sort of conditions as for C.M. And above all that C.M. perseveres, for these dr...
233 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 30 May 1882.
in translation:
...ot let it come to this scandal. My drawings for C.M. are ready but I shan’t be able to get that mon...
234 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 1 and Friday, 2 June 1882.
in translation:
C.M. also has some in this manner, but haven’t heard from him yet.
in note 3:
Uncle Cor had Fish-drying Barn (F 938 / JH 152) and Fish-drying barn (F 946a / JH 151) (see letter 21...
235 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 3 June 1882.
in translation:
...appard was pleased with a similar drawing which C.M. has, and moreover with all the others C.M. has. ...
I have heard from C.M. in the form of a postal order for 20 guilders but without a single word to go ...
In the circumstances, should I learn that C.M. would rather not have any more, of course I cannot and...
in note 9:
See letter 211 for the amount mentioned and letter 214 for the payment by Uncle Cor.
in note 2:
...and brush and heightened with white, went to Uncle Cor; Van Gogh wrote that he had worked on it with...
236 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Tuesday, 6 June 1882.
in translation:
...to the commercial value of things, that now that he, as a dealer, told me that they were of no commer...
... But that I didn’t want to force my work on His Hon. against his will, and was prepared to send him...
That uncle of mine in Amsterdam also informed me with considerable aplomb that Degroux was in fact a ...
in note 5:
Van Gogh referred earlier to this discussion with Uncle Cor in letters 211 and 228.
in note 4:
...nt writes to Theo that he has not replied to the letter from Uncle Cor and does not intend to do so.
237 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 June 1882.
in translation:
...day before I came here I received a letter from C.M. in which he writes a good deal about the ‘inte...
in note 6:
..., in which Van Gogh writes at length to Van Rappard about how he replied to Uncle Cor’s reaction.
239 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 22 June 1882.
in translation:
...�� I laboured so hard on them, and on those for C.M.as well, in those last days when I felt so much m...
in note 7:
...erwise quite normal. He had complaints about Uncle Cor, that he had judged his drawings so coolly. V...
240 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Saturday, 24 June 1882.
in translation:
...awings that seem not to have pleased my worthy Uncle gave me double pleasure. Later, however, I hear...
in note 3:
To Uncle Cor in Amsterdam.
242 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 2 July 1882.
in translation:
...ve drawn it twice, once large and once smaller. C.M. has both and they were the ones, especially the ...
247 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 18 July 1882.
in translation:
...most of the recent ones are either with you, or C.M. still has them &c. He was overhasty in everythin...
258 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 20 August 1882.
in translation:
...something can be done with these first studies. C.M. once interpreted certain remarks by me in that w...
263 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, between about Tuesday, 12 and Sunday, 17 September 1882.
in note 1:
... van Abonnement in de Leesinrichting’ of C.M. van Gogh, bookseller and art dealer (SAAm). On this ...
280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
in translation:
...s by Jacque that I saw at least 10 years ago at C.M.’s. It was a series, The months. They were done...
in note 19:
... series of woodcuts that Van Gogh saw at his Uncle Cor’s (‘C.M.’) was Les douze mois de l’an...
284 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Friday, 17 or Saturday, 18 November 1882.
in note 2:
...Gogh had sent a second series of drawings to Uncle Cor at the end of May 1882, he had to wait a long...
339 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 2 or Thursday, 3 May 1883.
in translation:
...he Salon has opened. No doubt Messrs H.G.T. and C.M. will be paying you a visit one of these days. It...
349 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 3 June 1883.
in translation:
...for my part, to lighten your burden, I wrote to C.M. (although I took no pleasure in that, I assure y...
...ay of finding new contacts and perhaps of putting things right with C.M. or Tersteeg, say, or Mauve.
350 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 5 June 1883.
in translation:
... sent small sketches of the two compositions to C.M. My hope is that this will perhaps result in his ...
...reconciliation with Tersteeg, however, and with C.M., and I have virtually no other resource than the...
in note 8:
...ng of 1882 Van Gogh had quarrelled with both Uncle Cor (C.M.) and H.G. Tersteeg: his uncle reacted u...
356 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 22 June 1883.
in translation:
I’ve had no reply from C.M. to my letter and so I shan’t write again soon.
in note 13:
Van Gogh had sent Uncle Cor a letter and two sketches; see letters 349 and 350.
361 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 July 1883.
in translation:
After all, I don’t think it very nice of C.M. that I haven’t received one syllable in reply to my...
in note 40:
...gh had looked at volumes of this periodical in March 1878 in Uncle Cor’s library (see letter 142).
in note 38:
...cent reported to Theo that he had written to Uncle Cor on 3 June 1883: see letter 349. The ‘croqui...
362 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 13 July 1883.
in translation:
Although I haven’t heard a syllable from C.M. in reply to my letter and croquis of Peat diggers and...
...er. I was already ill at the time, and received C.M.’s reply in the hospital. He had looked at them...
... woman”.’ However, I’ve deliberately kept C.M. in reserve for just such an emergency, and I thi...
in note 13:
Vincent reported to Theo on 3 June 1883 that he had written to Uncle Cor: see letter 349.
363 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 22 July 1883.
in translation:
...rate not explain why Mauve, say, or Tersteeg or C.M. are so cool as not to want to see anything or sa...
376 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 19 August 1883.
in translation:
...ever would be. If perhaps you said something to C.M. about me possibly leaving the woman, then please...
378 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 21 August 1883.
in translation:
...pects. Accept my thanks for the step taken with C.M. — I’ll thank C.M., send him some studies, ot...
Perhaps if you again proposed to C.M., say, in your words or mine, what was raised last year, the out...
And having paid my debt with the money from C.M., it might be desirable to make the move quickly. A j...
in note 8:
...aid, namely after receiving the advance from Uncle Cor. Letter 384 shows that Van Gogh received the ...
in note 4:
...82 Van Gogh had twice made a series of drawings for his Uncle Cor for payment (see letter 210 ff.).
in note 2:
...ussed during his visit, Theo must have asked Uncle Cor to help support Vincent. Given the course of ...
379 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 23 and about Wednesday, 29 August 1883.
in translation:
Today I’m sending a number of studies to C.M. I’m still very pleased with your revised opinion of...
380 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 2 September 1883.
in translation:
As for C.M., I sent him more than 20 studies, so I don’t think he’ll be dissatisfied — moreover...
in note 3:
Theo had mediated to put Uncle Cor and Vincent back in touch; see letter 378.
384 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 10 September 1883.
in translation:
... event. And I would suggest you write a word to C.M. right away to inform him of my departure because...
...t if we’re lucky enough to get something from C.M., I’ll have one or two things I’ve picked out...
I, for one, think that C.M. might just do nothing at all.
...ot to arrange today — write a short letter to C.M. — and in the next few days you’ll receive a ...
in note 2:
...yptic passage may be paraphrased as follows. Uncle Cor had given an advance on the drawings sent to ...
387 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Sunday, 16 September 1883.
in translation:
...y a pity that you’ve still heard nothing from C.M. Obviously he doesn’t have to do anything, but ...
And if C.M. didn’t answer me, I can if need be understand that in so far as I say, oh well, it’s ...
..., and at least it isn’t entirely dependent on C.M. Only I’m very glad that I’m here because, ol...
...ter will be welcome again. Write just a word to C.M. in any event, at least if you haven’t already ...
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in translation:
...Don’t forget to tell me the outcome regarding C.M., whether you’ve told him that I was here and w...
I’ve NEVER SAID that he must do something, nor do I now. I count what he did or might do as a favou...
... — that is far from being No. 1. No. 1 is that he goes too far in losing sight of the rights that I...
...t I must have an explanation, and not rest until I’ve settled matters with him one way or another.
...ore if you knew precisely what occurred between him and me in years past. When I was very dubious ab...
I thought that C.M., for example, might have understood me better, and have all the more reason to be...
...ough, that I shall NOT mention you, even though his insult to you, if he doesn’t set it right (it ...
...nd I don’t doubt that this will remain so. If C.M. falls through, which I fear, this doesn’t alte...
...rs. Mistakes along the lines, for example, that C.M. certainly believes that Degroux was a bad man, i...
in note 1:
...he following shipments sent by Van Gogh to his uncle are known from the correspondence: 12 pen-and-i...
392 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Wednesday, 3 October 1883.
in translation:
...hemselves out. I admit that your explanation of C.M.’s silence might be the case, but sometimes non...
393 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Sunday, 7 October 1883.
in translation:
...ttle more certainty in my affairs this year. If C.M. comes, talk to him about things again. I wish ab...
398 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 22 October 1883.
in translation:
... a little — if, for example, I could count on C.M. taking my studies — well, seeing as it’s che...
Has C.M. been yet? I repeat, keep your courage up, I’ll do the same, and if you do ever decide to b...
403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
in translation:
...m behind me), Pa and Tersteeg, and come to that C.M. and who knows who else, all the influences of th...
411 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 8 December 1883.
in translation:
...the spirit in our family, particularly Pa’s and also, for instance, C.M.’s, more and more wrong.
...a ‘Van Gogh’, became a character like Pa or C.M. and by always being involved in business acquire...
...ality — played a part in the world like Pa or C.M. or Uncle V. even, very well, I wouldn’t interf...
415 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 December 1883.
in translation:
Every now and then, C.M. also used to come out with ‘unforgivable’. And people like Pa and C.M. s...
432 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 2 March 1884.
in translation:
If I’m as cool as can be to Pa — to C.M. — why should I behave any differently towards you were...
...�t give, after all — neither you, nor Pa, nor C.M. or the rest, who are always first off the mark t...
442 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 24 March 1884.
in translation:
...r side, namely yours. You know that you told me C.M. said something of the sort to you about me this ...
492 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 9 April 1885.
in translation:
But I know for certain that C.M., for instance, would speak of — badly drawn &c.
525 To Cornelis Marinus van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 6 or Friday, 7 August 1885.
in translation:
My dear Uncle,
in note 2:
Vincent and Uncle Cor had last met at the end of March, in the days after Mr van Gogh’s death, at w...
534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
in translation:
...es de la Hollande, Van der Hoop et Rotterdam at C.M.’s, but C.M. didn’t have the first volume, Mu...
I didn’t go into C.M.’s with him.
in note 32:
See for Uncle Cor’s art gallery and bookshop: letter 4, n. 2; for Thoré, Musées de la Hollande: l...
568 Vincent van Gogh and Andries Bonger to Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Wednesday, 18 August 1886.
in note 7:
...p to show it (or sell it?) – possibly to his uncles or to H.G. Tersteeg – or to use as an exchang...
in note 2:
...eg. On the basis of Vincent’s remark about Uncle Cor and Uncle Vincent in letter 659 we can assume...
653 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in translation:
Uncle Cor has seen work of mine more than once, and he thinks it atrocious.
656 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 6 August 1888.
in translation:
...histo character who makes you think a little of C.M. when younger, and in Coffee —.. it’s absolut...
659 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 12 August 1888.
in translation:
... hard for me to get it into my head that he and C.M. haven’t condemned you a little to forced labou...
in note 14:
...rring here to the discussion he had had with Uncle Cor in 1882, which he had told Theo about. In def...
in note 13:
The refusal by Uncle Cor and Uncle Vincent to provide financial backing had happened in the summer of...
702 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 10 or Thursday, 11 October 1888.
in translation:
..., of the half-dealer, half-collector sort. Thus C.M., even without helping us in any other way, could...
in note 2:
...studies to his uncle, the art dealer Cornelis Marinus van Gogh, several times in 1882-1883: cf. lett...
735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.
in translation:
If you can do so, talk a little to C.M. about the future of his business and the fact that his son ca...
in note 4:
For the paintings in which C.M. van Gogh traded, see Stolwijk 1998, pp. 310-312.
in note 3:
...his son together). In May 1891 Cornelis Marinus van Gogh (Uncle Cor) transferred ownership of his bo...
743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
in note 15:
... moment when). Here Van Gogh is referring to Uncle Cor and/or Uncle Vincent – both of whom had ref...
762 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 24 April 1889.
in translation:
...m that age, when we see the people of today. At C.M.’s there was an exhibition of charcoal croquis...
in note 8:
... and drawings by Anton Mauve on display at C.M. van Gogh’s gallery at Keizersgracht 453. The Amste...
784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
in translation:
...ews it contains. I think it’s very logical of Cor to go there. What is different there from stayin...
839 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 13 January 1890.
in translation:
You must talk about it one day with C.M., should you see him, and tell him frankly that I’ll willin...
So when you see C.M., and it seems very likely to me that he will indeed drop by in February to see t...
854 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 12 February 1890.
in translation:
...e a good idea to send Reid, and perhaps also Tersteeg, or rather C.M., a copy of Aurier’s article?

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6 essay items found

Correspondents / Family members
in correspondents_2:
...e in the Van Gogh family: the art dealers Cornelis Marinus (‘Uncle Cor’ or ‘C.M.’) and Vincen...
... an artist in The Hague he made an appeal to Uncle Cor, who gave him a sympathetic hearing despite t...
For the city views for Uncle Cor see letters 210 and 214.
Biographical & historical context / The financial backgrounds
in context_3:
...ents and expenses that Vincent had. In 1882, Uncle Cor commissioned 12 pen drawings from him for 2.5...
Biographical & historical context / The immediate family circle
in context_4:
Cornelis Marinus van Gogh, ‘Uncle Cor’ (1826-1908), worked as a bookkeeper in his brother Hein’...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
... window, reading. I know that Uncle Vincent and Cor like it very much, and I sometimes think that th...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Manuscripts
in letter_writer_5:
...k in his letter of 19 May 1877: ‘Yesterday Uncle Cor sent me a batch of old paper, such as the she...
Biographical & historical context / The family and children of the Reverend and Mrs Van Gogh
in context_1:
...ation between the brothers Hendrik, Vincent and Cor in the art trade), and the uncles Vincent and Co...
...Vincent wrote to Theo: ‘Do you still visit Uncle Cor now and then? Sometimes I long to see him so ...
...reer, it is strange that both Uncle Cent and Uncle Cor were not prepared to help him financially whe...
Uncle Vincent and Uncle Cor were definitely not the only ones with a conservative taste. The Dutch ha...
...amily evidently received reading matter from Uncle Cor’s shop, or from his own collection. In 1876...
...ly. Two such individuals were Uncle Cent and Uncle Cor, who influenced the careers of Vincent and Th...

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2 other items found

Overview of all the letters
in overview:
to Cornelis Marinus van Gogh, uncle
Chronology
in 1883:
... August @Sends more than 20 drawings to Uncle Cor, who takes them on commission (379, 380, 384)...
in 1882:
11-24 March Draws 12 views of The Hague that have been commissioned by his Uncle Cor (210, 213).
Early April Uncle Cor commissions a second series of cityscapes (214). Theo moves to 25 rue La...
... second series of cityscapes (7 drawings) to Uncle Cor (232). @Sends Theo a drawing (233, 234)....
in 1873:
...ent visits Uncle Cor, the art dealer Cornelis Marinus van Gogh, in Amsterdam. Views his collection o...

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103 letters, 6 essay items and 2 other items found

103 letters found

6 essay items found

2 other items found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters