BIB_ID
307371
Accession number
MA 3950.3:263
Creator
Meurent, Victorine.
Display Date
Asnières-sur-Seine, France, 1883 July 31.
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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 13.5 cm
Notes
Written from: "7 boulevard de la Seine / Asnières / Seine."
Forms part of the Tabarant collection, papers related to the artist Édouard Manet.
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
Writing at length about posing for "Olympia" and other paintings by Édouard Manet; mentioning the time she spent in America; referring to a promise Manet had made to her in the past regarding financial help; saying that though she had sworn not to bother Suzanne about this, her situation has recently become desperate, between having to care for her aging mother and being unable to work due to a broken finger on her right hand; stating that Messieurs "Lhenoff" [possibly referring to Ferdinand Leenhoff] and Gustave Manet can confirm Manet's intention to deliver on his promise.
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