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"Aujourd'hui on rit et demain on pleure, ainsi va la vie"
Signed autograph letter
1894|11.50 x 17.40 cm|une feuille
€150
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⬨ 71479
Signed autograph letter from the painter Jules Breton, one folded sheet, a marginal tear. Academically trained, a realist then naturalist painter, Jules Breton was one of the first artists of the peasant world.
The painter addresses a childhood friend of his daughter, the artist painter Virginie Demont-Breton: "Thank you for your kind letter of congratulations about Virginie's decoration, your former little companion who has kept such affectionate memories of you. I can still see you playing on the sand of Douarnenez during that horrible war [...] My wife [...] has just lost her youngest brother whom we loved tenderly. Today one laughs and tomorrow one cries, such is life [...]"
The painter addresses a childhood friend of his daughter, the artist painter Virginie Demont-Breton: "Thank you for your kind letter of congratulations about Virginie's decoration, your former little companion who has kept such affectionate memories of you. I can still see you playing on the sand of Douarnenez during that horrible war [...] My wife [...] has just lost her youngest brother whom we loved tenderly. Today one laughs and tomorrow one cries, such is life [...]"
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- Year:1894
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