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To Theo Van Gogh. Antwerp, on Or About Tuesday, 2 February 1886 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886. on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886 Metadata Source status: Original manuscript Location: Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. nos. b488 a-b V/1962 Date: Van Gogh writes that the painting course ended last week; this happened at the end of January 1886. He also thanks Theo for sending the regular allowance, which almost always arrived at the beginning of the week. We have therefore dated the letter on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886. Additional: Original [1r:1] Waarde Theo, Dank voor Uw brief en het ingeslotene. Het is iets dat mij fameus veel pleizier doet, dat gij het plan van bij Cormon te gaan nu ook zelf voorstelt. 1 Laat mij U zeggen hoe t mij hier nog verder is gegaan. De schildercursus is verl. week geeindigd, 5 daar er voor het eind van den cursus nog 1 This earlier plan is mentioned in the previous letter, letter 556. Van Gogh knew that Breitner2 had studied with Cormon3 (see letter 465) and may also have heard about him at the academy in Antwerp. Cormon opened his studio at number 104 boulevard de Clichy in 1882. While he did receive his students there, corrections were also done in the studio in rue La Bruyre. The syllabus did not differ much from that of his predecessor Lon Bonnat4. Cormons was less rigidly structured, though, and it was above all this more liberal attitude that won him a favourable reputation among a younger generation of artists. Students drew (classical) plaster casts and from life, and Cormon demanded from his students an extremely accurate, lifelike drawing. He advocated a painting technique based on a dark design, on which the painting was worked up with transparent and light colours. He also encouraged his students to work en plein air; sketching trips were a regular feature of the timetable. The studio was particularly popular with foreign artists. See Gauzi 1992, pp. 16-32; exhib. cat. Paris 1988, pp. 10-27; Welsh-Ovcharov 1976, p. 13; Galbally 1977, pp. 29-30; Destremau 1997. From the subsequent letters it emerges that Theos willingness to let Vincent study with Cormon was linked to Theos move at the end of June, since the lease on his apartment ran out then (see letter 559). Theo must have recognized that this marked the start of a new situation, in terms both of his accommodation and of Vincents studio. The precise solution was the subject of discussion in the next few months, with Vincent pressing increasingly hard to be allowed to go to Paris, on the pretext that he would be able to prepare himself to go to Cormon better there than he could in, say, Antwerp or Nuenen. See also Van Tilborgh 2007. 5 The course did not end officially until 31 March. 1 2 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886. concours is voor degenen die den cursus hebben door- gemaakt, waar ik niet toe hoor dus.6 Nu ben ik ook over dag aan het teekenen dus en de leeraar van daar die tegenwoordig portretten maakt en ze duur betaald krijgt heeft mij herhaaldelijk gevraagd of ik dan vroeger nooit antiek geteekend had en of ik mij zelven teekenen geleerd had. En concludeerde je vois que vous avez beaucoup travaill en, vous ne serez pas long faire du progrs, vous y gagneriez beaucoup il faut un an mais quest ce que a fait. Nu, er zit er een van mijn leeftijd naast me tot wien hij dat niet zegt en die heeft ook lang geschilderd die zit 3 jaar antiek te teekenen. Zij teekenen nu in den regel zonder fonds7 daar, en speciaal die heer in kwestie is t absoluut verboden. Dit geeft gruwelijk drooge teekeningen. Nu zei Sibert, dat is de naam van den leeraar die ook de naaktklas dirigeert quant vous, vous dessinerez comme il vous plaira, puisque je vois que vous prenez le dessin au serieux, quant aux autres, en gnral je ne leur permets pas de faire un fond parcequalors ils escamottent le dessin des formes, tandis que sur fond blanc ils sont bien obligs de les faire cest donc un camisole de force. Dan zeide hij ook dat Verlat hem gezegd had dat er goeds in mijn werk was, wat Verlat tegen mij niet zeide.[1v:2] Het was juist na het ontvangen van uw brief dat Sibert de teekeningen kwam nazien (de mijne was een kop van de Niob en een hand die van Michel Ange kon wezen de hand had ik in een paar uur gedaan en die juist vond hij goed). 8 Nu sprak ik hem er over dat ik er over dacht naar Cormon te gaan toen zei hij vous ferez comme vous voudrez mais je vous dis que Verlat en a form plusieurs de forts et nous y tenons de former des lves qui nous fassent honneur et je vous engage bien fortement de rester. Dit is nu bijna een mooie belofte van dat zij de russite guarandeeren, en wat moet ik doen. Van den anderen kant heb ik verder met b.v. die Engelsche lui die in Parijs zijn geweest kennis gemaakt en van hun ondervindingen gehoord. Een is bij Gerome geweest, een bij Cabanel9 &c. 6 All the courses were concluded with a competition. According to the Annual Report for 1887, the painting class stopped at the end of January so that the students could prepare for this. See cat. Amsterdam 2001, p. 13. 7 Lees: fond (background). 8 Neither of these drawings is known. Niobe was a mother who was turned to stone by grief (Ovid, Metamor- phoses vi, 146 ff according to Pliny, Praxiteles made a sculpture group of her and her children). Because of the expressiveness of the heads, depictions of Niobe were often used at art academies. Cf. cat. Amsterdam 2001, p. 69, and for the hand the drawings Sketch of a left hand (F 1693f / JH 989 and F 1693g / JH 990), which are part of a sketchbook. 9 During his forty years in teaching, Jean Lon Grme10 had had more than 2000 students. Cabanel11s studio, likewise in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, was also very popular with students from France and other countries. This To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886. 3 Zij zeggen dat men te Parijs betrekkelijk vrijer is en dat men zelf b.v. kan kiezen wat men wil maken, meer dan hier, maar dat de correctie onverschillig is. Weet gij wat ik denk. dit te Parijs zou ik zeker meer werken dan hier b.v. een teekening op een dag of in iedere twee dagen. En wij kennen, of liever gij kent goede lui genoeg die ons niet weigeren zullen ze na te kijken en wenken nog te geven. Dus we zijn eigentlijk in alle geval op een spoor, het zij ik hier bleef nog een tijd t zij ik naar U toe kwam. [1v:3] Cormon zou zeer waarschijnlijk t zelfde zeggen als Verlat overigens. Want juist omdat ik nu in de gelegenheid ben om met verscheiden lui over mijn teekeningen te spreken voel ik zelf mijn fouten , dat is veel gewonnen om ze te boven te komen. Goeden moed in alle geval. Maar gij moet nu eens een keer meer schrijven en wij moeten zien het hem intelligent te lappen. Cormon laat, hoorde ik, 4 uur smorgens werken dan kan men savonds naar de Louvre of naar de Ecole des beaux arts of naar een ander atelier waar geteekend wordt gaan werken. Wat de portretten betreft, veel tijd schiet er zeker niet voor over als ik alles geregeld bijhouden wil. En zoo is t hier ook. Er is mij echter verschrikkelijk in t oog gevallen dat er nog andere dingen zijn die ik absoluut noodzakelijk moet veranderen. Als ik me zelf vergelijk bij de andere lui, heb ik veel te veel iets stijfs, als of ik 10 jaar cellulair had gezeten. En dat is een kwestie waar de oorzaak van zit juist in de daadzaak dat een jaar of 10 ik het en moeielijk en onrustig gehad heb, en zorg en verdriet en geen vrienden. Dat zal echter veranderen juist naarmate mijn werk beter wordt en men iets kan en iets weet. Wat, zeg ik, we op t spoor zijn om goed solide te krijgen. [1r:4] Twijfel er echter niet aan de weg om te slagen is moed houden en geduld en stevig doorwerken. En in het uiterlijke is het zaak dat ik me wat opknap. Gij zult zeggen dat het met de kunst niets te maken heeft misschien en misschien zult ge me ook gelijk geven. Ik ben doende om b.v. mijn gebit weer in orde te brengen. Ik heb niet minder dan 10 tanden makes it impossible to identify these Englishmen. See on the training: Ackerman 1986, pp. 168-177, and Dumas 1882-1888, p. 260. 4 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886. die of weg zijn of weg gaan. En dat is te veel en te hinderlijk en tevens geeft het mij een air van over de 40 jaar, wat me teveel nadeel doet. Dat heb ik dus besloten te laten oplappen. Het is een kwestie die mij frs 100 kosten zal maar het kan nu terwijl ik teeken beter dan op een ander moment en ik heb mij de kwade tanden laten afknippen en de helft zooeven vooruit betaald. Tevens is mij toen gezegd dat ik mijn maag moet soigneeren want dat die niet in orde is.
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