Lettre autographe signée au peintre Lucien Hector Monod "vous plairait-il de voir mon tableau les pèlerins d'Emmaüs ?"

Autograph letter from painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret to painter Lucien Monod, inviting his colleague to see his painting The Pilgrims of Emmaus, now in the Pittsburgh Carnegie Museum of Art in Pennsylvania. 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.
"Vous plairait-il cher Monsieur Monod de voir avant que je ne l'envoie en Angleterre mon tableau "Les pèlerins d'Emmaüs" [...]" ["Would it please you, dear Monsieur Monod, to see before I send it to England my painting 'The Pilgrims of Emmaus' [...]"].