IDENTITY
Letter 668 — Paint Manufacture
Arles, 1888
Content Summary
On 23–24 August 1888 at Arles, Van Gogh discusses paint manufacture, including grinding, oil uptake and the behaviour of chromes, Veronese green, vermilion, orange lead, cobalt and ultramarine.
CONTEXT
Topics
Paint Manufacture, Grinding, oil uptake, chromes, Veronese green, vermilion, orange lead, cobalt, ultramarine
Materials & Pigments
Oil, Cobalt, Vermilion, Ultramarine, Veronese green, orange lead
Related People
Vincent van Gogh
Paintings
RESEARCH
Quotation
Research Focus
The letter provides unusually technical evidence for Van Gogh’s awareness of how pigments behave during manufacture and how their material properties affect the resulting paint.
Related Work / Relevance
SOURCES & EVIDENCE
Source Type
Letter
Source
Source Edition
Vincent van Gogh — The Letters, scholarly online edition (Van Gogh Museum / Huygens ING)
Source URL
Evidence Type
Primary Source, Scholarly Annotation
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