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Letter from Claude Monet, Paris, to Théodore Duret, 1878? : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
224288
Accession number
MA 3950.3:272
Creator
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1878?.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.9 x 13.4 cm
Notes
Possible year of writing from pencil note and accompanying transcription.
Written from 26 rue d'Edimbourg.
Forms part of the Tabarant collection, papers related to the artist Édouard Manet.
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.
Summary
Mentioning Duret's interest in buying a painting before his departure and saying that he hopes to show him, in a few days, the paintings he is working on at the moment; asking for a loan of ten or twenty francs.