Summary: In the third volume of the Van Gogh Studies the painting by Gauguin "Visions of the Sermon" (Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland) plays a central role. With four essays on the
reception of this iconic work and the different symbolic interpretations. Further essays are concerned with the series of portraits Gauguin made of Jacob Meijer. The Mus璽ee Rodin and the
Thorvaldsen Museum are the subject of an essay on the Nineteenth Century notion of the artist as an individual. An essay on the "nouvelle psychologie" as the vision of the unconsciousness and
its representations of it in the Third Republic. This volume closes with an essay on the remarakble diversity of illustrations and caricatures in Ninetheenth Century books.
