Record ID:
224274
Accession number:
MA 3950.3:279
Created:
Giverny, France, 1883 September 5.
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description:
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.5 cm
Notes:
Forms part of the Tabarant collection, papers related to the artist Édouard Manet.
Summary:
Explaining his silence; saying that for a long time he had gotten nothing good done, but that he had at last started work on a number of canvases; saying he had wanted to finish them before writing Duret, but then bad weather intervened; adding that he is taking advantage of the rainy days to make a series of dining room panels for Durand-Ruel; writing in detail about a deal recently arranged between Durand-Ruel and Petit.
Provenance:
From the collection of Adolphe Tabarant (1863-1950); by descent to his daughter Lucienne Tabarant and sold by her to Mina Curtiss (1896-1985) in 1960; purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard in 1974.
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