vangoghletters.org: Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard, Arles, 18 March 1888. [dostęp 2011-02-12]. Cytat: At the top of this letter I am sending you a small sketch of a study that I am trying to make something of – sailors with their sweethearts going up to the town, which is profiled by the strange silhouette of its drawbridge on a huge yellow sun(ang.).
vangoghletters.org: Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, Arles, 18 March 1888. [dostęp 2011-02-12]. Cytat: I've worked at home on the study which I made a sketch of in Bernard's letter [B2]. I wanted to manage to get colours into it like stained glass windows, and a good, firm drawing.(ang.).
vangoghletters.org: Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, Arles, 24 March 1888. [dostęp 2011-02-12]. Cytat: I've had a setback with the sunset with figures and a bridge that I spoke of to Bernard. The bad weather prevented my working on the spot, and I've completely ruined it by trying to finish it at home. However, I at once began the same subject again on another canvas, but, as the weather was quite different, in gray tones and without figures(ang.).