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Cuesmes, 7 September 1880
...rsteeg and also you have come to my aid with good models, for at present I think it is much better to copy some good things than to work without this foundation. Yet I could not keep from sketching in...
Cuesmes, 24 September 1880
... for having been so kind as to lend it to me. The models are outstanding. Meanwhile I am reading one book on anatomy and another on perspective, which Mr. Tersteeg also sent me. These studies are dema...
Brussels, 15 October 1880
...rave;les d'apres la bosse de Bargue [Plaster-cast Models by Bargue] there - either in the little room or outside in the garden; but now that I am as far as the portraits after Holbein in the third par...
Brussels, 12 April 1881
...o on with them. I must somehow have the necessary models to finish them, and then I trust the result will be good, that is, I shall have a few compositions to show to Smeeton Tilly, or to the editors ...
Etten, September 1881
...s Mauve told me, I have started working with live models again. Luckily I have been able to get several people to sit here for me, including Piet Kaufman, the labourer. Careful study and the constant ...
Etten, c. 12 October 1881
...e picture was drawn here.] I am very happy to get models. I am also trying to get a horse and a donkey. That thick Ingres paper I mentioned is especially good for painting in watercolour, and it is mu...
Etten, 12 October 1881
...e model a good deal, for I have found a number of models who are willing enough. And I have all kinds of studies of diggers, sowers, etc., men and women. At present I am working a good deal with charc...
Etten, 18 November 1881
...nce May, I am beginning to know and understand my models, my work is progressing; but it has cost me a lot of effort to get on so far. And now that I have got so far, Father would say, Because you wri...
The Hague, c. 18 December 1881
...en and its types and figures so splendid. But the models are very expensive - 1.50 or 2 guilders a day, some even more. But here one comes in...
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