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"dans une caisse qui menaçait de devenir un cercueil"

Autograph letter signed on his paintings

Paris 21 octobre 1884|11.40 x 17.80 cm|une feuille

€600
⬨ 71462
Moving autograph letter signed by the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, two pages on a folded leaf, lamenting the fate of his paintings stored at the Amiens Museum while awaiting exhibition.
The painter addresses a recipient probably connected with the Musée de Picardie in Amiens, who had given him news of his works kept in the museum still undergoing expansion: "J'étais en effet très attristé de savoir d'une part mes tableaux en péril, et ceux qui doivent les compléter enfermés depuis plus de deux ans dans une caisse qui menaçait de devenir un cerceuil - je m'y sentais avec eux - je souffrais aussi de voir fuir cet été incandescent et si propice à la construction sans qu'une pierre eût été posée, ce que vous dites me rassure pour l'avenir." He also mentions his friend Charles Borély, the first curator of the Musée de Picardie, who did not live to see the museum completed: "Puisse Dieu me porter vie et me permettre de voir s'achever ce monument - mon pauvre ami Borély si dévoué à son musée n'aura pas eu cette joie".

Bibliographical description of this copy

  • author:
    PUVIS DE CHAVANNES Pierre
  • Place of publication:
    Paris
  • Year:
    21 octobre 1884
  • Dimensions:
    11.40 x 17.80 cm
Réf : 71462|€600
Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES • Autograph letter signed on his paintings • "dans une caisse qui menaçait de devenir un cercueil" • Autograph • 1884
Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES • Autograph letter signed on his paintings • "dans une caisse qui menaçait de devenir un cercueil" • Autograph • 1884
€600
⬨ 71462

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