BIB_ID
428759
Accession number
MA 22741.1
Creator
Rousseau, Henri, 1844-1910.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1894 June 26.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.3 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Rousseau's letter was sent with a letter from Joseph Donzé to Jarry, with which it is still housed. Donzé's letter has been cataloged separately as MA 22741.2.
Provenance
Purchased from Sotheby's Paris, 5/22/19, lot 137; Bibliothèque R. et B. L. (Régine and Bernard Loliée).
Summary
Sending news regarding Jarry's mother's apartment on boulevard de Port-Royal, which was in the process of being cleaned out and rented; saying that he has retrieved Jarry's easel, a box of "célèbres acteurs" (a reference to Jarry's marionettes), and a Japanese lantern that he intends to use in his portrait of Jarry; enclosing a letter from Joseph Donzé, the concierge; writing further about Jarry's upcoming move; sending greetings to the "chevaliers de la palette" (a reference to Gauguin, Seguin and Filiger); apologizing for his scrawl, mentioning the lateness of the hour and a bad candle.
Housed in
Blue half-morocco case (18.2 cm) with the bookplate of Régine and Bernard Loliée.
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