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2000.M.23
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Nineteenth-century French artists' letters and other papers
Creator: Guérin, Paulin-Jean-Baptiste, 1783-1855
Creator: Gravillon, Arthur Antoine Alphonse de
Creator: Granet, François-Marius, 1775-1849
Creator: Duval-Lecamus, Pierre
Creator: Dubray, Vital Gabriel, 1813-1892
Creator: Miciol, Pierre
Creator: Marold, Luděk, 1865-1898
Creator: Lory, Matthias Gabriel, 1784-1846
Creator: Lipinsky, Sigmund, 1873-1940
Creator: Hymans, Henri, 1836-1912
Creator: Harpignies, Henri, 1819-1916
Creator: Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891
Creator: Cabanel, Alexandre, 1823-1889
Creator: Calmettes, Fernand, 1846-1914
Creator: Ade, Mathilde, 1877-1930
Creator: Berthelon, Eugène
Creator: Cazin, Jean-Charles, 1841-1901
Creator: Desnoyers, Auguste Gaspard Louis, baron
Creator: Clésinger, Jean-Baptiste, 1814-1883
Creator: Clairin, Georges, 1843-1919
Creator: David, Jules, 1808-1892
Creator: Detaille, Edouard, 1848-1912
Creator: Colin, Paul Alfred
Creator: David d'Angers, Pierre-Jean, 1788-1856
Creator: Dardoize, Emile, 1826-1901
Creator: Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904
Creator: Gudin, baron, 1802-1880
Creator: Monnier, Henry, 1799-1877
Creator: Percier, Charles, 1764-1838
Creator: Rochet, Louis, 1813-1878
Identifier/Call Number: 2000.M.23
Physical Description: 90 items
Date (inclusive): 1719-1921
Abstract: This assembled collection comprises 85 items, mainly letters, notes, and cards written by 30 identified French artists, and
10 of other nationalities, on various subjects related to their professional and private lives.
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Language of Material: French.
Scope and Content of Collection
A composite collection, assembled by an English dealer. This composite collection comprises 85 items with identified authors,
and 10 unidentified. It consists mainly of letters, notes, and cards written by 30 identified French artists, and 10 of other
nationalities, on various subjects related to their professional and private lives.
Among the most significant are 16 letters by Edouard Detaille, revealing details of his private and public activities; some
of Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier's letters reflecting his continued fight against his detractors; the comments of Louis Emile
Dardoize to his biographer; a letter written by Louis Etienne Waltelet while he was sketching the Echelles de Savoye; and
3 letters of David d'Angers revealing details of his professional life. The correspondence of artists of other nationalities
includes the following: Mathilde Ade sends samples of bookplates, with a note on which her photograph is printed; Sigmund
Lipinski wants to send bookplate samples, but sends the prices first. Otto Heyden describes his trip across Italy. Paul Tetar
van Elven is in Italy, hoping to obtain an important commission. An unidentified Spanish painter describes the artistic life
in Madrid and the frustrating behavior of the exhibition juries. The other 9 items in this unidentified group are about various
personal matters.
A French document written on parchment and dated Bayonne, 1719 Nov. 27, is also included in the collection. It is a receipt
signed by Guy Renéì de la Chevallerie de la Motte for 116 livres, received as payment for two months of his appointment as
"ingeìnieur ordinaire du roy" in the ongoing war.
The collection is arranged in one series, alphabetically.
Processed by Onica Busuioceanu.
Acquired in 2000.
Nineteenth-century French artists' letters and other papers, 1719-1921, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession
no. 2000.M.23.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2000m23
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Receipts (financial records)
Book plates
Albumen prints
Artists -- Europe -- Correspondence
Artists -- France -- Correspondence
Correspondence
Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904
Gudin, baron, 1802-1880
Detaille, Edouard, 1848-1912
Clairin, Georges, 1843-1919
Cazin, Jean-Charles, 1841-1901
David d'Angers, Pierre-Jean, 1788-1856
Clésinger, Jean-Baptiste, 1814-1883
Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891