24 letters found
- 236 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Tuesday, 6 June 1882.
- in note 2:
According to Silvestre, Eugène Delacroix characterized the art of painting as follows: ‘Cette maî...
- 506 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 2 June 1885.
- in note 27:
.... 89). The ‘wire’ (fil de fer) occurs in Silvestre’s Eugène Delacroix (Silvestre 1864, p. 38)...
- 515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
- in note 17:
Silvestre had also observed that Michelangelo made sublime figures which did not accord with reality....
- 526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
- in note 9:
...ed his anecdote about Gros and Géricault on Silvestre, where the wording occurs again (p. 39). Silv...
- in note 8:
Silvestre writes: ‘The first one to come along exclaims on seeing a Delacroix picture: He doesn’t...
- in note 3:
Silvestre discusses this subject on pp. 16-17.
- in note 2:
Théophile Silvestre wrote in Eugène Delacroix. Documents nouveaux: ‘Thus died, almost smiling, on...
- in translation:
... I’ve read a splendid article about him by Silvestre. To write for you a few words from it that oc...
...he lion devouring his piece of flesh’. And Silvestre’s article is particularly full of this latt...
Something else on Delacroix. Silvestre writes: they say that Delacroix doesn’t draw — say rather ...
- 535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
- in note 19:
...des artistes vivants français et étrangers Silvestre quoted Thiers, who spoke of ‘the horrible t...
- 536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
- in translation:
...hose questions — because that will get you further, and Bürger and Mantz and Silvestre knew that.
But how fine what Silvestre says about Delacroix is — that he took an accidental tone on his palett...
- in note 22:
Van Gogh is mistaken here: it was not Silvestre, but Bracquemond who wrote in his Du dessin et de la ...
- 538 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 3 or Wednesday, 4 November 1885.
- in note 12:
...des artistes vivants français et étrangers Silvestre said of Delacroix: ‘He worries terribly abo...
- in translation:
... horribly — I noticed it in the Fodor. Yet Silvestre says that Delacroix drenched his paintings wi...
- 542 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 17 November 1885.
- in note 10:
... must Histoire des artistes vivants français et étrangers by Théophile Silvestre: see letter 557.
- 548 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 17 December 1885.
- in note 13:
...out Courbet’s ‘caprices burlesques’ in Silvestre’s Histoire des artistes vivants français e...
- 557 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886.
- in note 7:
...at we do know is that Jenny le Guillou, whom Silvestre calls his governess, looked after him for a l...
- in note 6:
... (ni dents ni soufflé) is derived from what Silvestre said about Delacroix in Histoire des artistes...
- 560 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 9 February 1886.
- in note 7:
See for this quotation from Silvestre’s Eugène Delacroix: letter 526, n. 2. The end of the sentenc...
- in note 3:
...n from the essay ‘Eugène Delacroix’, in Silvestre, Histoire des artistes vivants français et Ã...
- in translation:
...n who have loved much — touched and — as Silvestre says of Delacroix — thus died, almost smili...
- 575 To Emile Bernard. Paris, about December 1887.
- in note 4:
This was probably Théophile Silvestre’s Eugène Delacroix. Documents nouveaux (1864), which Van Go...
- 595 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 11 April 1888.
- in note 14:
...on yellow and Prussian blue in his Pietà in Silvestre’s Eugène Delacroix. Documents nouveaux who...
- 632 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Tuesday, 26 June 1888.
- in note 11:
...Van Gogh is ringing the changes here on what Silvestre said about Delacroix – ‘neither teeth nor...
- 651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
- in note 4:
See for this quotation from Silvestre, Eugène Delacroix: letter 526, n. 2. Van Gogh lent this book t...
- in translation:
I love the closing words of Silvestre, I think it was, who ends a masterly article like this:
- 655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
- in note 17:
...breath’ (ni dents, ni souffle), taken from Silvestre’s Histoire des artistes vivants français e...
- in note 13:
...have read about Courbet’s sex life in Théophile Silvestre’s Histoire des artistes vivants franç...
- 676 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 8 September 1888.
- in note 5:
Silvestre drew a similar parallel between the use of colour and human emotions in Eugène Delacroix. ...
- 687 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
- in note 12:
...acroix used large quantities of Prussian blue from Silvestre; in this context cf. letter 595, n. 14.
- 722 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 21 November 1888.
- in note 4:
For Silvestre’s Eugène Delacroix. Documents nouveaux, see letter 526, n. 2.
- in translation:
Have they read Silvestre’s book on E. Delacroix, and the article on colour in C. Blanc’s Grammair...
- 735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.
- in note 10:
...tter 732), he must be referring here to Théophile Silvestre’s Eugène Delacroix. Documents nouveau...
- in translation:
Has Bernard returned the Silvestre book to you yet? I’ll need the exact title to get those doctors...
- 765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
- in note 2:
Van Gogh could have based this statement on Silvestre’s Documents nouveaux: ‘Yes, Delacroix was a...
- 800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
- in note 28:
Silvestre wrote this about the death of Delacroix in Eugène Delacroix. Documents nouveaux; see lette...
- 801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
- in note 3:
...‘neither teeth nor breath’, derived from Silvestre’s Histoire des artistes vivants français e...
- 856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
- in note 8:
...e words ‘almost smiling’ were taken from Silvestre’s book Eugène Delacroix. Documents nouveau...
1 essay item found
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
- in letter_writer_4:
...er’s La vie et l’oeuvre de J.-F. Millet, Silvestres Eugène Delacroix. Documents nouveaux, and J...
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1885:
Early August
#Vincent reads Silvestre’s Eugène Delacroix. Documents nouveaux and Bracquem...
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Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Théophile Silvestre (1823-1876) French writer
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