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  • Stéphane MALLARMÉ
  • (to Alidor DELZANT)

" Voici un quatrain lapidaire..." [joint] Calque original du quatrain destiné à orner le linteau de sa cheminée

Signed autograph letter and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant

s. d. [15 avril 1892]|12.60 x 16.40 cm|2 pages sur un double feuillet, une carte et un calque

€5,000
⬨ 75925
Autograph letter signed by Stéphane Mallarmé to Alidor Delzant. Two pages written in black ink on a bifolium. Envelope enclosed.
Also included is a signed autograph quatrain by Mallarmé on a card, the one later inscribed on the mantelpiece:
« Ici le feu pour renaître
Tantôt durable ou charmant
Comme l'amitié du maître
Mêle du chêne au sarment. »
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector, and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourt brothers, he devoted a work to them and served as Edmond’s secretary and executor.
A fine letter in which Mallarmé evokes the composition of a quatrain to adorn Delzant’s mantelpiece: « Je suis infiniment touché, et cette pensée, comme toutes les vôtres, est gracieuse. Voici un quatrain lapidaire + je conseille la gravure en capitales?; dites-moi s'il vous agrée.++ Mais usez-vous de sarments ??»
Also included is the original tracing, probably made by Mallarmé himself, of the quatrain intended to decorate the lintel of Alidor Delzant’s library fireplace in his house at Paraÿs.
Delzant’s reply to this letter is known: « Mon cher ami / Ces vers sont très beaux, juste ce qui convenait pour glorifier la Cheminée de Paraÿs où les sarments pétillent autour des bûches des chênes. / Je demeure touché et reconnaissant. / Alidor Delzant. »

Bibliographical description of this copy

  • author:
    MALLARMÉ Stéphane
  • recipient:
    DELZANT Alidor
  • Year:
    s. d. [15 avril 1892]
  • Dimensions:
    12.60 x 16.40 cm
Réf : 75925|€5,000
Stéphane MALLARMÉ • Signed autograph letter and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant • " Voici un quatrain lapidaire..." [joint] Calque original du quatrain destiné à orner le linteau de sa cheminée • Autograph • 1892
Stéphane MALLARMÉ • Signed autograph letter and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant • " Voici un quatrain lapidaire..." [joint] Calque original du quatrain destiné à orner le linteau de sa cheminée • Autograph • 1892
Stéphane MALLARMÉ • Signed autograph letter and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant • " Voici un quatrain lapidaire..." [joint] Calque original du quatrain destiné à orner le linteau de sa cheminée • Autograph • 1892
Stéphane MALLARMÉ • Signed autograph letter and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant • " Voici un quatrain lapidaire..." [joint] Calque original du quatrain destiné à orner le linteau de sa cheminée • Autograph • 1892
Stéphane MALLARMÉ • Signed autograph letter and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant • " Voici un quatrain lapidaire..." [joint] Calque original du quatrain destiné à orner le linteau de sa cheminée • Autograph • 1892
€5,000
⬨ 75925

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