Van Gogh and Anton van Rappard
In November 80,Vincent
met Van Rappard thanks toTheo, a young Dutch painter with whom he would
develop a true friendship.
Though they had different backgrounds and personalities, they would write
long letters to each other, where they talked mainly about technics, shared
their skills and engravings they both collected.
Some time later, Van Rappard would come to his help he was from
a well-off family who supported him- by lending him some money to achieve
Whenever Vincent quarelled with his brother, he was his confident, listening
to his despairs.
A serious conflict would oppose them when Vincent sent him a lithograph
of his latest work, the Potato Eaters, of which he was very
Van Rappard harshly criticized that work for its flaws of perspective
or of drawing. Vincent resented it, and asked him to retract his words
without conditions. After swapping some scathing letters,
Rappard gave in and retracted his words. But their friendship tremendously
suffered from it...and would not last long.