Carte-lettre autographe signée à un journaliste à propos de l'une de ses toiles et l'un de ses poèmes

Autograph letter signed by the painter Jules Breton to a colleague thanking him for his laudatory article concerning his latest painting: "J'ai été heureux de lire l'éloge que vous faites de mon tableau dans la Vie moderne, d'y trouver mon sonnet favorablement cité par un poète que j'aime entre tous." ("I was happy to read the praise you give my painting in La Vie moderne, to find my sonnet favorably quoted by a poet whom I love above all others.")
Academically trained, first a realist then naturalist painter, Jules Breton was one of the first artists of the peasant world and a poet member of the Parnasse, admired notably by Van Gogh.