BIB_ID
413608
Accession number
MA 13962.8
Creator
Daubigny, Charles François, 1817-1878.
Display Date
London, between 1870 and 1878.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.8 x 13.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Madame".
Place of writing suggested by Daubigny's reference to his recent return from France; letter probably written some time after 1870, during Daubigny's residence in London during the Franco-Prussian War, or one of his later stays in that city.
Part of a collection of 8 letters from Charles Daubigny to Barbara Bodichon (see MA 13962.1-8).
Place of writing suggested by Daubigny's reference to his recent return from France; letter probably written some time after 1870, during Daubigny's residence in London during the Franco-Prussian War, or one of his later stays in that city.
Part of a collection of 8 letters from Charles Daubigny to Barbara Bodichon (see MA 13962.1-8).
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Declining her kind invitation because he is stuck in bed recovering from bronchitis caught in Paris and explaining that he has given up all idea of exhibiting his paintings for the moment because he has been unable to finish them.
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