FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: A good selection of A.Ls.S.... Lot 1036
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FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: A good selection of A.Ls.S. by a variety of famous French men and women, most associated with the arts during the 19th century, including
Tony Johannot (regarding the colourisation of an illustration),
Joseph Thierry (a brief letter passing on the thanks of a friend to his brother),
Adrien Dauzats (a lengthy letter announcing his imminent return to Paris after an exile in a cold, grey country, where he studied monuments for a long time but never conquered them),
Philbert Rouviere (a good original signed self-portrait in pencil, with a brief quotation from William Shakespeare´s
Hamlet),
Henry Monnier (referring to a proposal from the publisher Dentu which he finds excellent),
Charles Odry (manuscript receipt for four performances, 1841),
Jean-Baptiste Provost (announcing that he will be absent for the next hunt, as he is on holiday in Switzerland),
Charles-Edme Vernet (stating that he will leave the
troupe des Varietes),
Augustine Susanne Brohan (agreeing to an appointment for her daughter),
Francois Desnoyer (two letters to the French artist and designer Christian Berard, in one making a reference to Berthe Weill´s gallery and the other written during the German occupation),
Auguste Feyen-Perrin (two letters, one most probably written to the sculptor Ludovic Eugene Durand),
Jacques Ibert (to the French librettist Albert Willemetz, 1953),
Georges Ohnet (acceding to the request of a colleague),
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (brief letter to Edouard Dubufe regarding a general meeting),
Jules Ziegler (regarding the cost of sewage works at Voisinlieu where Ziegler had established a sandstone vase factory) etc. Some light age wear and a few minor faults, generally G to VG, 26
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