AT_001 MAN DIGGING IN THE ORCHARD / VII1883
Letter 351 to Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1883. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "Today I asked for permission to draw sketches in the old men’s and old women’s home, namely the men’s ward, the women’s ward and the garden. I was there today. From the window I sketched an old gardener by a crooked apple tree, and the workshop of the home’s carpenter, where I drank tea with two orphan men."
Letter 362 to Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 13 July 1883. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum. "Had the Orphan man [Zuyderland] again today for something that suddenly occurred to me and that I wanted to press ahead with before beginning on something else. I must tell you that I’ve been to the orphanage again after all on a visiting day. That was when I saw the gardener and drew him from the window. Well, I didn’t want to let that go, and now I’ve got it down in roughly this form, as far as I can remember [sketch annexed]."
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