"...quand il aura passé quelque temps à copier..."

Autograph letter signed addressed to the painter Jean-Pierre Granger and dated April 24, 1826, one page written in black ink, with the correspondent's address on the verso.

15 lines in a beautiful slanted handwriting on a folded sheet.

The celebrated Empire painter recommends to his colleague: "a young man who seems very interesting to me and too young to enter my studio. Dear Grand Diable, please do me the favor of taking good care of him in yours and when he has spent some time copying, if it does not inconvenience you, I will take him back with pleasure and well on his way."
Jean-Pierre Granger was first a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault before joining Antoine-Jean Gros in Jacques-Louis David's studio. In 1800, he became laureate of the first Rome Prize for history painting with Antiochus renvoie son fils à Scipion (Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts) while his fellow student Jean-Dominique Ingres received the second prize.