6 letters found

1. 162 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, January 1881.

   in translation:

   ... terrifying truthfulness, such as Gavarni, Henry Monnier, Daumier, De Lemud, Henri Pille, T. Schuler...

   in note 5:

   Van Gogh might have been thinking of Henry Bonaventure Monnier’s Mémoires de Monsieur Joseph Prudh...

2. 288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.

   in translation:

   ... and Souvestre, for example, as between an Henry Monnier and Compte-Calix and the above artists. Iâ€...

3. 296 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 27 December 1882.

   in translation:

   ...nted Mr Prudhomme)? In it I read a ‘journey by diligence’, amazingly true to life. Henry Monnier

   in note 3:

   Henry Monnier’s Croquis à la plume (1858) consists of 28 dramatised conversations. The story ‘Un...

4. 436 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 10 March 1884.

   in translation:

   ...eneralities, their opinions — like those of Monnier’s Joseph Prudhomme. But philosophizing about...

   in note 10:

   See for the character of Prudhomme in Monnier’s Scènes populaires dessinées à la plume, Grandeur...

5. 455 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 23 August 1884.

   in translation:

   ... were in accord we’d have to be people like Monnier’s Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme, and I at least ...

   in note 4:

   ...er of the petit bourgeois Joseph Prudhomme in Monnier’s Mémoires de Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme: le...

6. 510 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 28 June 1885.

   in translation:

   ...ou can’t stand that either — and in content they’re a new edition of Monnier’s M. Prudhomme.

   in note 8:

   See for the character of Joseph Prudhomme in Monnier’s Scènes populaires dessinées à la plume, G...

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