44 letters found
- 044 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 4 September 1875.
- in note 2:
Alfred Sensier, Etude sur George Michel. Paris 1873. This monograph consists of a detailed biography,...
- 045 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 7 September 1875.
- in note 3:
Regarding Etude sur George Michel by Alfred Sensier, see letter 44, n. 2.
- 053 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 30 September 1875.
- in note 1:
On Alfred Sensier, Etude sur George Michel, see letter 44, n. 2.
- 066 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Monday, 17 January 1876.
- in note 3:
On Alfred Sensier’s Etude sur George Michel, see letter 44, n. 2.
- 074 Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, Vincent van Gogh and Theodorus van Gogh to Theo van Gogh. Etten, Tuesday, 4 April 1876.
- in note 9:
Alfred Sensier, Etude sur George Michel; see letter 44, n. 2.
- 157 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Tuesday, 7 September 1880.
- in note 12:
Van Gogh is referring to Étude sur George Michel by Alfred Sensier; see letter 44, n. 2.
- 171 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 26 August 1881
- in note 6:
Millet’s biographer, Sensier, made the following remark: ‘Millet always remained true to the age-...
- 210 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
- in note 3:
Alfred Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet. Paris 1881. Reading this lengthy work, Van Gogh ...
- in translation:
...a man that Millet was! I have the big work by Sensier on loan from De Bock. It interests me so much ...
Here you have a few words that struck me and moved me in Sensier’s Millet, sayings of Millet.
- 211 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
- in note 19:
This is not a literal quotation from Sensier, but its meaning fits in with Millet’s ‘programme’...
- 232 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 28 May 1882.
- in note 17:
For Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.-F. Millet, see letter 210.
- in translation:
...ead the great work about Millet by his friend Sensier. It’s extremely interesting, and if you have...
- 244 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 July 1882.
- in note 10:
This quotation derives from Sensier: ‘On two occasions, I was able to believe that this thought of ...
- 249 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 July 1882.
- in note 15:
...vation does not occur in exactly this form in Sensier’s book about Millet, but the picture of him ...
- 258 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 20 August 1882.
- in note 9:
Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.-F. Millet. See letter 210, n. 3.
- in note 15:
...ark about the soup for the children is not in Sensier in literally this form, but Millet’s concern...
- in note 12:
These exact words are not found in Sensier’s biography, but they should be regarded as Van Gogh’s...
- in translation:
...let or T. Rousseau or Daubigny. When you read Sensier’s book about Millet you take courage from it...
- 286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
- in note 17:
...s expression often, but it is not recorded in Sensier’s book on Millet. The only time it is found ...
- 288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
- in note 10:
...t with a woollen cap), 1847-1848, included in Sensier’s La vie et l’oeuvre de J.-F. Millet. Ill....
- 291 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Monday, 4 and Saturday, 9 December 1882.
- in note 7:
...th animals, such as a cockerel and an ox, cf. Sensier’s remark in his biography of Millet about hi...
- 336 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 April 1883.
- in note 6:
For this quotation from Millet in Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Milletsee letter 210, n. 5.
- 397 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Tuesday, 16 October 1883.
- in note 6:
...n used’ this expression is not confirmed by Sensier or Burty 1877. See for the only time that the ...
- 400 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 28 October 1883.
- in note 13:
For this quotation from Millet in Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet see letter 210, n. 5.
- 403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
- in note 8:
...hat Van Gogh has retained from his reading of Sensier’s La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet (1881)...
- 414 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 16 December 1883.
- in note 3:
Van Gogh knew Millet’s views through Sensier’s La vie et l’oeuvre (1881), which he had read in ...
- 430 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between Monday, 18 and Saturday, 23 February 1884.
- in note 4:
An allusion to a remark by Millet in Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet: see letter 210, n....
- 434 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Wednesday, 5 and about Sunday, 9 March 1884.
- in note 7:
...esult and publicly abandoned him. See Sensier 1881, pp. 42-43, 72-75. Sensier was Millet’s patron.
- in note 6:
...e notion that God blesses large families from Sensier’s biography. He may have based the expressio...
- in note 5:
...Michelet’s L’amour and La femme, and from Sensier’s book about Millet. Sensier refers to the i...
- in translation:
...ould Millet have been able to do this without Sensier? Perhaps not. But why did Millet break with th...
- 454 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between mid-August and early September 1884.
- in note 16:
Vincent got Sensier’s La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet (1881) either from Theo (during his visit...
- in translation:
... I would much rather read Blanc. You can read Blanc’s book and the Millet too, if you like.Sensier
- 493 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 13 April 1885.
- in note 6:
... Millet derives from the following passage in Sensier: ‘I am not a philosopher, I have no wish to ...
- in note 10:
For this quotation from Millet in Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet, see letter 210, n. 5....
- in translation:
...imself felt and knew that — and, on reading Sensier, what he said about the start of his career st...
- 495 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 21 April 1885.
- in note 9:
...by Théophile Gautier which Van Gogh found in Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet: ‘There...
- 497 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 30 April 1885.
- in note 10:
...d to a passage in Millet’s biography, where Sensier, in reference to the painting L’homme à la ...
- 499 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 2 May 1885.
- in note 3:
Van Gogh took this from Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet: see letter 495, n. 9.
- 500 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 May 1885.
- in note 13:
Van Gogh derived this observation from Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet: see letter 495, ...
- 505 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 28 May 1885.
- in note 4:
...the expression ‘peint avec la terre’ from Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet: see lett...
- 506 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 2 June 1885.
- in note 3:
Van Gogh took this expression from Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet: see letter 495, n. 9...
- 509 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 22 June 1885.
- in note 11:
Sensier gives some examples of the good reception given to Millet’s works towards the end of his li...
- 513 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 12 July 1885.
- in note 5:
Sensier writes that Millet did not receive any money when his mother died; he renounced his inheritan...
- in translation:
Did you read in Sensier’s book that when Millet had the good fortune to inherit several thousand fr...
- 515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
- in note 6:
See for this saying by Millet, quoted in Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet : letter 210, n...
- 536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
- in note 12:
...ones as being ‘of the earth’ derives from Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet: see lett...
- 541 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 14 November 1885.
- in note 6:
Van Gogh bases this on what Sensier wrote about Millet’s stay in Le Havre in 1845: ‘He did, in fa...
- in translation:
...t been exploited yet. Do you remember this in Sensier? I’ve always remembered how Millet kept hims...
- 556 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Friday, 29 January 1886.
- in translation:
...more audacity than credit. Look at Millet and Sensier, look at Balzac, Zola, De Goncourt. Look at De...
- 594 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 April 1888.
- in note 16:
...’. In his Souvenirs sur Th. Rousseau (1872) Sensier cited as examples of ‘this deplorable method...
- 665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
- in note 6:
...larity between a peasant and a wild animal in Sensier’s biography of Millet, which Van Gogh knew w...
- 697 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 4 or Friday, 5 October 1888.
- in note 9:
An allusion to the good relationship Sensier had with Millet (cf. letter 210, n. 2).
- in note 7:
... position to give his friends financial help. Sensier relates how Diaz, who was a great admirer of M...
- 765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
- in note 3:
Sensier had already emphasized the image of Millet as a peasant among peasants in his Salon reviews. ...
- 822 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
- in note 22:
According to Sensier, it was the Bible that Millet ‘considered the painters’ book, the book in wh...
- 841 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Monday, 20 January 1890.
- in note 5:
...his consolation, compare the closing words of Sensier’s preface to La vie et l’oeuvre de J.-F- M...
- in note 4:
This echoes something Sensier wrote: ‘Millet, a man moved, but always wise’. See Sensier 1881, p....
- 856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
- in note 12:
...edge of Millet’s way of life primarily from Sensier, who told of Millet’s humble origins and his...
2 essay items found
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
- in letter_writer_2:
...n March 1882 of the biography of Millet by Alfred Sensier. From then on he not only admired Millet’...
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
- in letter_writer_4:
Such as Alfred Sensier’s La vie et l’oeuvre de J.-F. Millet, Silvestres Eugène Delacroix. Docume...
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- in 1882:
March
#Reads Sensier’s La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet (210).
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29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Alfred Jean Philippe Auguste (Alfred) Sensier (1815-1877) French poet
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