IDENTITY
Artist Lives, Hardship & Perseverance
The Hague, 1882
Content Summary
Cross-letter proposition: Van Gogh uses artist biography and accounts of artistic hardship as models for vocation, endurance and working life.
CONTEXT
Topics
Literature, Artist Biography, Perseverance, Artistic Vocation, Working Life
Materials & Pigments
Related People
Vincent van Gogh, Alfred Sensier, Jean-François Millet
Paintings
RESEARCH
Quotation
Research Focus
Across the selected letters, Van Gogh turns to accounts of artists’ lives and hardships as practical and moral models, especially where biography reinforces his ideas of perseverance, vocation and the necessity of continuing to work.
Related Work / Relevance
SOURCES & EVIDENCE
Source Type
Cross-letter Synthesis, Letter
Sources
Source Edition
Vincent van Gogh — The Letters, scholarly online edition (Van Gogh Museum / Huygens ING)
Source URL
https://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let244/letter.html | https://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let258/letter.html
Evidence Type
Primary Source, Scholarly Annotation, Cross-letter Synthesis
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