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017 To Theo van Gogh. London, beginning of January 1874.
in translation:
Millet, Jules Breton, Feyen-Perrin, Eugène Feyen, Brion, Jundt, George Saal. Israëls, Anker, Knaus,...
...e, Otto Weber, Daubigny, Wahlberg, Bernier, Emile Breton, Chenu, César de Cock, Mlle Collart. Bodmer...
029 To Theo van Gogh. London, between Monday, 4 January and Friday, 5 March 1875.
in translation:
...ook and I believe it’s turned out well. Send me The cliff by Jules Breton when you get the chance.
...od has promised to send us the best that can be had: Malaria by Hébert, The cliff by J. Breton, &c.
in note 8:
Jules Breton, The cliff, 1874 (Eric and Renée Weider Collection). The cliff was included in Goupil�...
in note 2:
A photogravure of Jules Breton’s painting La falaise (The cliff) was reproduced in Salon de 1874, a...
RM05 Pages sent to Theo with a story addressed to several writers and sundry quotations. Between May and June 1875.
in translation:
To Mr Jules Breton
Jules Breton
in note 9:
Fourth verse of Jules Breton’s poem ‘Yvonne’, in the volume Les champs et la mer. See Breton 18...
034 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 31 May 1875.
in translation:
I recently saw Jules Breton with his wife and two daughters. Physically he reminded me of J. Maris, t...
in note 11:
The first of these paintings by Jules Breton in the Musée du Luxembourg is The blessing of the corn ...
in note 9:
Jules Breton, The feast of Saint John, 1875 (private collection). Ill. 1713.
in note 8:
Jules Breton, Les champs et la mer. Paris 1875.
in note 7:
On 29 April 1858, Jules Breton married Elodie Breton-De Vigne, the daughter of Breton’s former teac...
042 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 2 September 1875.
in translation:
...ng a couple of photos for Pa of pictures by Jules Breton and Corot; I’ll write ‘for Helvoirt’ o...
048 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 13 September 1875.
in translation:
The photographs of the J. Breton and the Corot are for Helvoirt; the rest are for you.
053 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 30 September 1875.
in translation:
... along with the photos of the Corot and the Jules Breton sent previously, until Pa and Ma are comfort...
055 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 11 October 1875.
in translation:
J. Breton, Alone, The blessing of the corn, Calling the gleaners
Emile Breton, Winter evening. Bodmer, Fontainebleau
in note 10:
Emile Adélard Breton, Winter evening, 1871 (Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble). Ill. 1752.
in note 6:
...ession through a cornfield), Calling home the gleaners and Evening by Breton, see letter 34, n. 11.
060 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 9 December 1875.
in translation:
...��. I’ll also send you the little book by Jules Breton, at least if I can get it back. I’ve lent ...
in note 2:
Jules Breton, Les champs et la mer (1875); see letter 34.
061 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 10 December 1875.
in translation:
... what I promised. You’ll like the book by Jules Breton. There’s one poem of his that I found espe...
We have ‘Sunday morning’ by Emile Breton here at present. You know it, don’t you? It’s a vill...
in note 3:
Emile Adélard Breton, Sunday morning in winter (present whereabouts unknown); the painting was exhib...
in note 1:
...omised to send Theo Les champs et la mer by Jules Breton (see letter 60). The poem ‘Illusions’, d...
062 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 13 December 1875.
in translation:
...ting better again. The parcel for you was sent only today; the little book by Jules Breton is in it.
in note 1:
Vincent had promised to send Theo Jules Breton’s Les champs et la mer; see letters 60 and 61.
113 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Monday, 30 April 1877.
in translation:
...and loving the work and life of such men as Jules Breton, Millet and Jacque, Rembrandt, Bosboom and s...
132 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 21 October 1877.
in translation:
...e the time and the inclination, think of that piece by Jules Breton, and that other one by Michelet.
in note 7:
It is not clear which excerpt from Breton Van Gogh is referring to here. Compare, in this context, le...
133 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 30 October 1877.
in translation:
...unity, think of Michelet, you know what, and J. Breton, but you know what it’s for and that there�...
138 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Sunday, 30 December 1877.
in translation:
...one of these days with the lithograph after Jules Breton, The fields in winter, because I don’t wan...
in note 7:
...nt is referring to here. Cf. the possible reference to Breton’s Women hoeing in letter 156, n. 11.
139 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 9 and Thursday, 10 January 1878.
in translation:
...it Mauve, remember to ask for that piece by Jules Breton, The labourer, and send it when you get it.
140 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 10 February 1878.
in translation:
I’m reminding you of that piece by Jules Breton, not that there’s any hurry, but try and remember...
in note 12:
For Vincent’s initial request for one of Breton’s poems, see letter 139, n. 13.
141 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 18 and Tuesday, 19 February 1878.
in translation:
...so an etching after Corot, The dune, and after Breton, The feast of Saint John and others, by Chauvel...
in note 9:
Jules Breton, La Saint-Jean (The feast of Saint John), drawing by Edmond Charles Joseph Yon after a p...
143 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 3 April 1878.
in translation:
...ork of the likes of Rembrandt or from Weeds by Breton, or The four times of the day by Millet, or Say...
in note 14:
Jules Breton, Mauvaises herbes (Weeds) (present whereabouts unknown), exhibited at the 1869 Salon, wa...
146 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 5 August 1878.
in translation:
... a little drawing after A Sunday morning by Emile Breton in pen and ink and pencil. How beautiful it ...
in note 5:
For Emile Adélard Breton, Sunday morning in winter, see letter 61, n. 3.
156 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 20 August 1880.
in translation:
...so add some other sheets by or after Millet, J. Breton, Feyen-Perrin, &c. Don’t buy any specially,...
...r the lithograph after his Winnower. And figures by Brion or Frère or Feyen-Perrin or Jules Breton.
...study figure drawing from masters like Millet, Breton and Brion or Boughton, or someone else. What do...
In the photographs after J. Breton by Bingham there is, if I remember rightly, one of women gleaners....
in note 11:
...of art works. The work in question could be Jules Breton’s Women hoeing, 1860 (Omaha, (Nebraska), J...
in note 10:
It is possible Van Gogh wrote ‘Breton,’ instead of ‘Breton &’.
158 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 24 September 1880.
in translation:
...ess, I saw Courrières and the outside of Mr Jules Breton’s studio. The outside of this studio dis...
... elsewhere in Courrières for some trace of Jules Breton or of some other artist; all I found was his...
..., the human soul revealed — in Millet, in Jules Breton, in Jozef Israëls. But to return to Meryon,...
in note 13:
...the Eglise Saint-Piat, built in 1532, in which Breton painted in 1847 a Fourteenth Station of the Cro...
in note 12:
... was an amateur draughtsman and a friend of Jules Breton. (Communicated by Francine Lhost, chairperso...
in note 10:
...tion between the ‘Methodist regularity’ of Breton’s studio and the following remark made by Hug...
in note 9:
Breton had had a studio built near his house in the early 1860s. It stood on the site of the present-...
164 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Saturday, 2 April 1881.
in translation:
...ysse Butin and Alphonse Legros, not to mention Breton and Millet and Israëls, take very much to hear...
176 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Saturday, 15 October 1881.
in translation:
...febvre and Henner, in fact I greatly prefer Jules Breton, Feyen-Perrin, Millet, Ulysse Butin, Mauve, ...
193 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, on or about Friday, 23 December 1881.
in translation:
...ll movement (by the way, I happened to hear Jules Breton say that and have rememb...
235 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 3 June 1882.
in translation:
1 ,, Labours of the fields by Millet, also Breton, Feyen-Perrin and English prints by Herkomer, Bough...
in note 18:
... Moderne 1 (20 September 1879), p. 373, and Jules Breton’s Le soir (Salon de 1880) (The evening (Sa...
In the estate are Emile Adélard Breton’s Cimetière de Courrières (Churchyard at Courrières) fro...
245 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 July 1882.
in translation:
...Dutch painters conceived of it, and Millet and Breton — — — that light in the darkness — a br...
246 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 15 and Sunday, 16 July 1882.
in translation:
...ere by Dupré, Corot, Daubigny, Diaz, Courbet, Breton, Jacque &c. I especially liked the large sketch...
256 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 13 August 1882.
in translation:
...lections — Daubigny, Corot, Jules Dupré, Jules Breton, Courbet, Diaz, Jacque, T. Rousseau — whic...
278 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
in translation:
... mockery, the former, like such men as Millet, Breton, Degroux and Israëls, choose subjects which �...
in note 10:
Jules or Emile Adélard Breton, Charles Degroux and Jozef Israëls.
Jules or Emile Adélard Breton, Charles Degroux and Jozef Israëls.
280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
in translation:
...les Breton in my view, but as for surpassing these two men, don’t talk to me of that. Jules Breton
286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
in translation:
...the time when Corot, Millet, Daubigny, Jacque, Breton, were young, in Holland Israëls, Mauve, Maris,...
in note 15:
Jules Breton or Emile Adélard Breton.
Jules Breton or Emile Adélard Breton.
288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
in note 23:
Jozef Israëls, Jules or Emile Adélard Breton and Charles Degroux.
Jozef Israëls, Jules or Emile Adélard Breton and Charles Degroux.
in translation:
... I, for my part, think of Millet, of Israëls, Breton, Degroux — so many others, Herkomer among the...
291 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Monday, 4 and Saturday, 9 December 1882.
in translation:
... much higher in sentiment than many others, and knows much more and his work holds up. Emile Breton
...if there were more people like E. Frère or Emile Breton, for example, rather than stalwarts like Bol...
307 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 4 February 1883.
in translation:
...�s said of him that ‘he is the Millet and Jules Breton in Black and White’, and his name crops up...
in note 4:
...itte’s work. He is at once the Millet and Jules Breton of Black and White; and it would be a curiou...
308 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 5 February 1883.
in translation:
...lways comes out on top as ‘the Millet and Jules Breton in Black and White’, and there was, for in...
309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in translation:
...gs; they say of him ‘he is the Millet and Jules Breton in Black and White’. One review talked abo...
333 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 29 March and Sunday, 1 April 1883.
in translation:
... example. There must undoubtedly be many similarities between his work and that of Millet or Breton.
...the world of painting Corot and Millet too, or Breton, awoke so much energy in others which would nev...
369 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 29 and Monday, 30 July 1883.
in translation:
...t revolution in art of which Millet, Daubigny, Breton, Troyon, Corot are the leaders, then I’ll go ...
387 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Sunday, 16 September 1883.
in translation:
...��s clothes like they do in the Borinage, where the ‘pit rags’ are the same for all.Jules Breton
in note 12:
Jules Breton, Fille de mineur (Miner’s daughter) (present whereabouts unknown) Ill. 2116, hung at t...
396 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 15 October 1883.
in translation:
...multitude of cases. The Van Eycks as well. And Jules and Emile Breton in the present day, to mention...
400 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 28 October 1883.
in translation:
...inting, but to the school of Millet, Israëls, Breton, Boughton, Herkomer, several others. In short, ...
in note 19:
Probably Jules Breton.
401 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Wednesday, 31 October 1883.
in translation:
...e same as in Millet in Rembrandt, in Corot, in Breton, in Brion, in short in the work of several peop...
in note 11:
Probably Jules Breton.
403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
in translation:
...eep, deep respect for Millet, Corot, Daubigny, Breton, Herkomer, Boughton, Jules Dupré &c. &c., Isra...
431 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, Tuesday, 26 February 1884.
in translation:
... volume of French verse by François Coppée, Les humbles and Promenades et intérieurs.Jules Breton
in note 6:
Van Gogh had been familiar with Jules Breton’s poetry for some time. He had read the collection Les...
435 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 8 March 1884.
in translation:
Here, too, are some of the poems by Jules Breton, if you don’t have them I’m sure they’ll reall...
Setting sun (To Emile Breton)
436 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 10 March 1884.
in translation:
The fact that they have Breton is a relatively isolated case. But in Millet, Dupré, Corot, Daubigny�...
Now Breton, you know that, is rather different as a person from Millet and Corot — and I can unders...
439 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 March 1884.
in translation:
...which is amazingly like Courrières, where the Bretons live — yet the figures over there are at lea...
458 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 21 September 1884.
in note 6:
...rd ‘energetic’ (énergique)); that time he attributed it to Jules Breton. See letter 193, n. 26.
464 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 2 October 1884.
in translation:
But Millet, Breton, worship the peasant woman with the same passion.Breton
...that same infinite emotion — or that solitary figure by Breton in the Luxembourg, or his Spring.
in note 9:
Jules Breton, La source (The spring) (present whereabouts unknown). Known as a photograph in the seri...
in note 8:
See for Jules Breton, Evening: letter 34, n. 11; and cf. Sund 1992 p. 278 (n. 19).
483 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Thursday, 5 and about Thursday, 26 February 1885.
in translation:
...ity and in value. For instance, The well by Jules Breton was painted in a single colour, almost. But ...
in note 9:
See forJules Breton, The spring: letter 464, n. 9.
500 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 May 1885.
in note 21:
...tour des champs’ (à François Millet) by Jules Breton. See Breton 1875, pp. 51-53. Van Gogh had co...
in translation:
How fine, though, I think Jules Breton’s The song of the lark in the Salon issue — the painting b...
... the contrary — you see so many Daubignys, Corots, Millets, Dupré, Israëls, Herkomer, Breton &c.
I remember it says in Jules Breton’s poems, and I think in the very one he dedicated to Millet (a l...
in note 3:
Jules Breton, Le chant de l’alouette (The song of the lark), in L’Illustration 85 (25 April 1885)...
503 Anthon van Rappard to Vincent van Gogh. Utrecht, Sunday 24 May 1885.
in translation:
...ing you dare to invoke the names of Millet and Breton? Come on! Art is too important, it seems to me,...
514 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 13 July 1885.
in translation:
You wrote, ‘you dare to invoke Millet and Breton’.
... you again is just out of love for Millet, for Breton and for everyone who paints the peasants and th...
515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
in translation:
...nt (the great, for instance Millet, Lhermitte, Breton, Herkomer; the lesser, for instance Raffaëlli ...
534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
in translation:
...tkamp’s certainly the best, reminds me of Jules Breton; others I have in mind but won’t name, who...
535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
in translation:
... a devilish lot that’s good — resembles Jules Breton or Bastien-Lepage — but — Jules Breton i...
537 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 28 October 1885.
in translation:
Delacroix, Millet, Corot, Dupré, Daubigny, Breton, 30 more names, do they not form the heart of this...
543 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 20 November 1885.
in translation:
I found the enclosed sonnet by Jules Breton in a Revue.
Jules BretonJules Breton
in note 6:
The enclosed sonnet is ‘Les ruines’ by Jules Breton, which was published in La Nouvelle Revue 7 (...
550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
in translation:
... said against — painting people, that was the old Italian art, that was Millet and that is Breton.
559 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Saturday, 6 February 1886.
in translation:
... Delacroix, Corots, Millets, Duprés, Troyons, Bretons, Rousseaux, Daubignys — very well — but a ...
602 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 1 May 1888.
in translation:
...ust be beautiful. I’ve seen Le Salon published by L’Illustration. Is the Jules Breton beautiful?
in note 15:
Jules Breton was represented with Young women going to a procession (Utica, New York, Munson-Williams...
667 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888.
in translation:
...so that you get an idea of what a Millet, a Jules Breton, a Daubigny, a Corot is. You can keep the re...
768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
in translation:
...x, Millet, several sculptors have otherwise done better than the Impressionists, and even J. Breton.
...es, of what we have loved in our time, Millet, Breton, Israëls, Whistler, Delacroix, Leys. And be fu...
810 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 8 October 1889.
in translation:
Do you sense how much the figures of Jules Breton and Billet and others will remain? Those people ove...
in note 10:
Pierre Billet was a pupil of Jules Breton. He belonged to the second generation of realists and speci...
RM21 To Joseph Jacob Isaäcson. Auvers-sur-Oise, Sunday, 25 May 1890.
in translation:
...uage. Millet is the voice of the wheat, and Jules Breton also. Now I assure you, I can no longer thin...

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2 essay items found

Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
...pilgrimage from the Borinage to the home of Jules Breton in northern France, and later, as an artist,...
... as well, such as Jean-François Millet and Jules Breton as peasant painters, Georges Michel as a lan...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
in letter_writer_4:
... exception, and that is the ‘letter’ to Jules Breton of 1875 (see RM5). If it can be attributed t...
...he good cause as Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Jules and Emile Breton, Guillaume and Félix Régamey...

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Chronology
in 1884:
...#Transcribes poems by François Coppée and Jules Breton in letters to Theo and Van Rappard (430, 433...
in 1880:
...s in northern France and sees the studio of Jules Breton, but does not dare make himself known (158, ...

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66 letters, 2 essay items and 1 other item found

66 letters found

2 essay items found

1 other item found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters