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003 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, mid-January 1873.
in note 4:
...any reproductions after the work of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, including the collection of Emile V...
004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873.
in note 9:
...fter work by Camille Corot. Apparently Theo had sent the title of an album containing work by Corot.
017 To Theo van Gogh. London, beginning of January 1874.
in translation:
... Diaz, T. Rousseau, Troyon, Dupré, Paul Huet, Corot, Schreyer, Jacque, Otto Weber, Daubigny, Wahlbe...
030 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 6 March 1875.
in translation:
... d’Arc by Michelet, and also a portrait of Corot, from the London News, which I also have hangin...
032 To Theo van Gogh. London, between Tuesday, 13 and Sunday, 18 April 1875.
in translation:
...robably be curious about what goes with the etching by Corot and so I’ve copied that out as well.
in note 7:
... p. 99 (with several small variations). Ville-d’Avray is where Corot painted in his younger years.
034 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 31 May 1875.
in translation:
Yesterday I saw the Corot exhibition. It included a painting of the ‘Mount of Olives’; I’m glad...
There are 3 Corots at the Salon, very beautiful, the most beautiful one, painted shortly before his d...
in note 3:
The Corots at the Salon of 1875 were: Women cutting wood, Pleasures of the evening (danse antique) an...
in note 1:
Shortly after the death of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, a retrospective exhibition of his work was he...
035 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 19 June 1875.
in translation:
...er Ruisdael’s ‘Bush’, a lithograph after Corot’s ‘Sunset’, a lithograph by Bodmer, ‘Fo...
in note 6:
There are two lithographs after Camille Corot with Soleil couchant (Sunset) in the title. It cannot b...
037 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 6 July 1875.
in translation:
Corot Evening
in note 8:
Camille Corot made many works with Evening in the title. See the references in Robaut 1965, vol. 5 (T...
040 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 13 August 1875.
in translation:
...amily at Ville-d’Avray that day? I was surprised to find 3 paintings by Corot in the church there.
in note 5:
Around 1849 Corot presented the church at Ville-d’Avray with the painting Saint Jerome (1837), and ...
042 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 2 September 1875.
in translation:
...of photos for Pa of pictures by Jules Breton and Corot; I’ll write ‘for Helvoirt’ on the back.
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:
... an etching after the Margaret by Scheffer and a lithograph after Corot, and a package of chocolate.
... after Rembrandt, along with the photos of the Corot and the Jules Breton sent previously, until Pa ...
073 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 28 March 1876.
in translation:
...mber after Michel, and masses after Dupré and Corot and all other artists, to be had for 1 franc ap...
in note 5:
...me number after Jules Dupré, and 28 after Camille Corot. The complete series is to be found in the l...
114 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 19 May 1877.
in note 22:
This utterance of Corot – which Van Gogh twists slightly, making it sound more serious – comes fr...
in translation:
...his has been attested to by many, and not just Corot: ‘It took only forty years of work, thought a...
141 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 18 and Tuesday, 19 February 1878.
in translation:
...ich you have the issue with the woodcuts after Corot. What especially struck me were woodcuts after ...
in note 10:
...mentioned in n. 7 above), as well as one after Corot, Soleil couchant (Setting sun), and one after O...
in note 8:
...uard Daliphard after La dune (The dune) by Camille Corot. Illustration accompanying the article ‘E...
in note 6:
... Anglaise’ by Jean Rousseau (pp. 240-247, 269-275), which includes 12 wood engravings after Corot.
144 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 13 May 1878.
in note 28:
... onwards, this village and its environs became Corot’s favourite places, and he returned there eve...
in translation:
...was, I believe, even more than one painting by Corot hanging there. You know that he spent a lot of ...
148 To Theo van Gogh. Laken, on or about Wednesday, 13 and Friday, 15 or Saturday, 16 November 1878.
in translation:
...old me that you had seen the painting by père Corot of the same subject; I saw it at the exhibition...
in note 39:
On Corot’s Christ on the Mount of Olives, which Van Gogh had seen in May 1875, see letter 34, nn. 1...
165 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Tuesday, 12 April 1881.
in note 3:
...ioned magazine had published their portrait of Corot after Gilbert, which Van Gogh knew (see letter ...
171 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 26 August 1881
in translation:
...rd the last of him yet. He idolizes Millet and Corot, but, did those two take pains over the figures...
... things by De Bock, I thought, was a copy of a Corot. It could hardly pass for a real one, but was n...
in note 8:
Fake Corots began to appear on the art market with increasing frequency from the 1870s onwards; see V...
in note 7:
This copy by De Bock after Corot is not known.
175 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, between Wednesday, 12 and Saturday, 15 October 1881.
in translation:
... or at least one that’s too weak. Millet and Corot, whom we both like so much, could they paint a ...
246 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 15 and Sunday, 16 July 1882.
in translation:
...ere are many beautiful things there by Dupré, Corot, Daubigny, Diaz, Courbet, Breton, Jacque &c. I ...
The same goes for a small Corot, a stretch of water and the edge of a wood on a summer morning about ...
250 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 23 July 1882.
in translation:
... green, miles and miles of flat meadow, and a grey sky as still, as peaceful as Corot or Van Goyen.
256 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 13 August 1882.
in translation:
...nch art from private collections — Daubigny, Corot, Jules Dupré, Jules Breton, Courbet, Diaz, Jac...
272 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 15 October 1882.
in translation:
... of the details. It reminded me of a remark by Corot — ‘There are paintings in which there is no...
in note 7:
...ion of the following conversation: ‘One day, Corot said to Daubigny: I’m not happy: I lack skill...
280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
in translation:
...— Millet, Brion, Troyon, Rousseau, Daubigny, Corot — and a host of others — are no more. Think...
286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
in translation:
...did not doubt. I’m speaking of the time when Corot, Millet, Daubigny, Jacque, Breton, were young, ...
314 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 13 February 1883.
in translation:
...right away. Whenever I have time I browse through The Graphics — there are treasures in them!Corot
333 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 29 March and Sunday, 1 April 1883.
in translation:
... lithographs by Emile Vernier after Millet and Corot and Daubigny have qualities I rate very highly....
...to your patient. That Mgr Myriel reminds me of Corot or Millet — although he was a priest and the ...
in note 8:
...umerous lithographs after the works of Millet, Corot and Daubigny. For an overview, see Béraldi 188...
356 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 22 June 1883.
in translation:
...how up clearly. It’s more like Daubigny than Corot because of the variation of colour in the groun...
358 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 2 July 1883.
in translation:
...whom the most absurd things were said, Millet, Corot, Daubigny, etc., who were regarded more or less...
360 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Saturday, 7 July 1883.
in translation:
... on this sort of proportion is the hallmark of Corot and Rousseau and Diaz, Daubigny, Dupré. What t...
369 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 29 and Monday, 30 July 1883.
in translation:
...nts to see something that evokes a Daubigny, a Corot atmosphere, one must go further along to where ...
...art of which Millet, Daubigny, Breton, Troyon, Corot are the leaders, then I’ll go back to that sa...
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in note 20:
Corot was known as a kind, generous person; in the 1860s, for instance, he was among the friends who ...
in translation:
...er behind his), and I also thought there about Corot’s mistress in particular. Such women were sil...
In my view Pa has more the black ray and Corot has more the white ray, but both of them have a ray fr...
in note 19:
As a young man Corot, who never married, had various relationships about which little is known. The w...
396 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 15 October 1883.
in translation:
...acter such that you think the same about it as Corot, say, who wasn’t embarrassed, if he could din...
in note 1:
...nirs intimes, which contains an account of how Corot would tell his would-be pupils that they would ...
398 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 22 October 1883.
in translation:
..., and they — Millet and others, particularly Corot — wouldn’t have painted any less, or less b...
401 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Wednesday, 31 October 1883.
in translation:
... years ago, when things were as they were when Corot &c. were young – also that you wouldn’t be ...
...d I see the same as in Millet in Rembrandt, in Corot, in Breton, in Brion, in short in the work of s...
402 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Friday, 2 November 1883.
in translation:
...ng became just exactly like the most beautiful Corots. A silence, a mystery, a peace as only he has ...
... 6 o’clock in the morning — I saw the real Corots even earlier in the morning. The ride into the...
403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
in translation:
...est simplicity and truth — Dupré, Daubigny, Corot, Millet, Israëls, Herkomer — not to mention ...
... I have a deep, deep, deep respect for Millet, Corot, Daubigny, Breton, Herkomer, Boughton, Jules Du...
... their light black and a convention compared with the lightness of Millet and Corot, for instance.
... there are spectres there. And I do not see in Corot and Millet that there were spectres in their co...
in note 11:
Van Gogh derived what he knew about Corot from Dumesnil 1875 (cf. also letter 396).
409 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 6 December 1883.
in translation:
...ry highly priced now can go down. If you ask me, can Millet and Corot go down, I say, yes, IN PRICE.
...m an artistic point of view, Millet is Millet, Corot Corot, fixed — as the sun itself, in my view....
414 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 16 December 1883.
in translation:
... inside me, and I stick up for it because you confuse Pa’s character with Corot’s, for instance.
...I see Pa? As a person of similar character to Corot’s father, but Pa has nothing of Corot himself.
Corot did love his father, but he didn’t follow him. I love Pa, too, so long as my path isn’t mad...
in note 4:
...arie Françoise Corot-Oberson, encouraged their son – against his inclination – to become a clot...
419 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 4 January 1884.
in translation:
In a biography of Corot I find the following about the influence he had on Français.
in note 8:
...tradition: ‘Français was twenty when he met Corot through Buttera, after he had made his first st...
435 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 8 March 1884.
in translation:
Dawn (To Corot)
436 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 10 March 1884.
in translation:
...latively isolated case. But in Millet, Dupré, Corot, Daubigny’s own time, when they were young �...
...s rather different as a person from Millet and Corot — and I can understand that G&Cie ‘find him...
...t lover said about the way the dealers handled Corot’s studies. And that’s a shrewd remark — t...
in note 9:
This phrase has not been found in the Corot literature; it was probably passed on by word of mouth.
439 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 March 1884.
in translation:
...on of technique? Certainly not. If one takes a Corot, a Daubigny, a Dupré, a Millet or an Israëls ...
...�m sending you herewith a little booklet about Corot — which I think you’ll enjoy reading if you...
...ound — but how people must have despised it! Corot’s studies were a lesson to me when I saw them...
...hnique in your little peasant cemetery than in Corot’s studies — I’d liken it to them. In sent...
449 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 6 June 1884.
in translation:
...f once heard him say that in some paintings by Corot there are tones in evening skies, for instance,...
450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
in translation:
... tone. Which Mauve does; but Ruisdael doesn’t do it, Dupré doesn’t do it. Corot and Daubigny???
...upré is perhaps even more of a colourist than Corot and Daubigny, although they both are too, and D...
495 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 21 April 1885.
in translation:
...cape painters will revolve. Delacroix, Millet, Corot and the rest. This is — in my own feeling —...
...hat, for instance, was the first question that Corot addressed to Français when Français (who alre...
499 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 2 May 1885.
in translation:
...tain that if you were to ask Millet, Daubigny, Corot to paint a snowy landscape without using white ...
...’ve thought a great deal about the question. Corot, Millet, Daubigny, Israëls, Dupré, others —...
500 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 May 1885.
in translation:
On the contrary — you see so many Daubignys, Corots, Millets, Dupré, Israëls, Herkomer, Breton &c...
...ore white than Millet or Dupré or Daubigny or Corot. You’d be doing me a favour if you were to wr...
506 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 2 June 1885.
in translation:
...the technique and colour of Millet, Delacroix, Corot and others. There’s absolutely no immediate h...
510 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 28 June 1885.
in translation:
... something consumptive about it, and I think a Corot, a Dupré, a Millet is so infinitely more healt...
516 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 15 July 1885.
in translation:
...er friends, be simpler and better. Think about Corot as far as character is concerned — and, as fa...
526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
in translation:
...hose French painters are. A Millet, Delacroix, Corot, Troyon, Daubigny, Rousseau, and a Daumier or a...
535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
in translation:
...gs now and again! And at the French paintings, Corot, Millet &c. The rest, one can if necessary do w...
Van Goyen — that Corot among the Dutchmen — I stood for a long time in front of that masterly pie...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in note 18:
...arlier he had used the term in connection with Corot and Delacroix. See Van Uitert 1966-1967, p. 113...
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...
539 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 7 November 1885.
in translation:
...tteau was exactly as I thought.) Third Estate. Corot-like as far as bonhomie is concerned — with m...
557 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886.
in translation:
...t can’t be helped — didn’t Delacroix and Corot and Millet — particularly later — all keep ...
559 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Saturday, 6 February 1886.
in translation:
...— decline, if you will, after the Delacroix, Corots, Millets, Duprés, Troyons, Bretons, Rousseaux...
562 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Sunday, 14 February 1886.
in translation:
...ne can nonetheless sympathize and share in it. Corot, who had serenity if anyone did, who truly felt...
in note 4:
... Corot, in which he writes ‘War is declared. Corot refuses to move away from Paris and even expres...
569 To Horace Mann Livens, Paris, September or October 1886.
in translation:
...ere, the great dealers sell Millet, Delacroix, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, a few other masters at exorb...
611 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 20 May 1888.
in translation:
...entiment doesn’t deceive us. When good père Corot said a few days before he died: last night I sa...
in note 10:
...exhibition of 1875, begins with these words of Corot’s; Van Gogh had been to the exhibition (lette...
626 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between Saturday, 16 and Wednesday, 20 June 1888.
in translation:
...istory there are names like Delacroix, Millet, Corot, Courbet, Daumier, who dominate everything that...
635 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 1 July 1888.
in translation:
... — on the other hand, Monticellis, Daumiers, Corots, Daubignys and Millets aren’t ugly because i...
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in translation:
...mps, Dupré, Jongkind, Ziem, Israëls, Meunier, a heap of others, Corot, Jacque... could understand.
663 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 18 August 1888.
in note 10:
...o his work is something Van Gogh also got from Corot and Delacroix; see letters 396 and 765 respecti...
667 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888.
in translation:
...f what a Millet, a Jules Breton, a Daubigny, a Corot is. You can keep the rest. Except — Delacroix...
...t manner, the work of Delacroix, of Millet, of Corot, that remains and the changes don’t affect it...
694 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in translation:
...d be a good move, like the one back then, when Corot, seeing Daumier at bay, gave him enough to live...
in note 15:
As a result of the efforts of Camille Corot, Honoré Daumier was in a position to buy a house in Valm...
699 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 8 October 1888.
in translation:
...emen have been able to use Mauves as foils for Corots, it may be true and it may even be right. Beca...
in note 6:
...ealers Lawrie & Co. in London, together with a Corot landscape, and he assumes that Bague – possib...
765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
in translation:
.... But the inevitable question of money always remains – Delacroix had a private income. Corot too.
781 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 16 June 1889.
in translation:
...who hold up the best at the big exhibition are Corot, Manet, Delacroix, Millet, Ricard, and above al...
in note 5:
...e des Beaux-Arts) during the World Exhibition, Corot exhibited 44 paintings (cat. nos. 148-191), Man...
800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
in note 20:
For Corot’s utterance, see letter 611, n. 10.
in translation:
...ists’ – that had a grain of truth, because Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, Rousseau – Millet as a lan...
809 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy, on or about Tuesday, 8 October 1889.
in translation:
... the thing at all. Those silver greys are like Corot first of all, and that, above all, hasn’t bee...
822 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in note 23:
For Corot’s Christ on the Mount of Olives, see letter 34, n. 2.
in translation:
...ever, or almost never, did biblical paintings. Corot did a Garden of Olives with Christ and the star...
825 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 8 December 1889.
in translation:
...ou, and we’ll see each other more often. The Corots, Millets etc. didn’t sell their painting for...
854 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 12 February 1890.
in translation:
...cle on the fruitfulness of certain artists. Of Corot, Rousseau, Dupré &c.; do you remember how many...
in note 4:
...de by ‘the masters of the School of 1830’. Corot, for example, is estimated to have made 6,000 �...
894 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 30 June and Tuesday, 1 July 1890.
in translation:
...ld you that I’d bought that fine painting by Corot that those b... B & V said wasn’t saleable. T...
in note 9:
Camille Corot, Souvenir of Nemi. Rocks and shrubs, 1844 (The Hague, The Mesdag Collection). Ill. 2319...
900 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 14 July 1890.
in translation:
... going from there to Mesdag to talk to him about the Corot, then to Antwerp with a painting by Diaz.
in note 2:
... Theo’s lucrative sale the previous month of Corot’s Souvenir of Nemi. Mesdag had let it be know...
RM25 To Theo van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, Wednesday, 23 July 1890.
in translation:
...u’re something other than a simple dealer in Corots, that through my intermediacy you have your pa...
in note 2:
...s probably chosen because Theo had recently sold a Corot for a great deal of money (see letter 894).

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Chronology
in 1875:
30 May *Visits the Corot retrospective at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts (34).
...5 July *Spends the day in Ville-d’Avray, where he see murals by Corot in the village church (40).

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