Lettre autographe signée au peintre Lucien Hector Monod "pour tout ce que vous avez fait pour mon ami [le peintre Gustave] Courtois"

Autograph letter from painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret to painter Lucien Monod, thanking him for the assistance he provided to his friend painter Gustave Courtois. Dagnan-Bouveret had married Courtois's cousin, whom he also immortalized in his studio (private collection). One folded sheet.
Trained in the studios of Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Dagnan-Bouveret received the second Prix de Rome. Of naturalist inspiration, he devoted himself to religious painting and had a prolific career as a portraitist at the end of his life. He received prestigious commissions from the Countess of Béarn and the New York Frick family.