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Letter from Jacques-Emile Blanche, Paris, to Léon Leenhoff, 1884 January? : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
441092
Accession number
MA 3950.3:24
Creator
Blanche, Jacques-Emile, 1861-1942.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1884 January?.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 12.2 x 9.8 cm
Notes
Blanche does not date the letter. Date supplied in another hand.
Blanche gives the place of writing as "15 rue des Fontis."
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
Paying him a hundred francs for the "joli petit dessin" by Manet that he had picked up from the École des Beaux-Arts that day; congratulating Leenhoff on the exhibition; mentioning "une petite brioche" that he had painted in Manet's studio the previous year and asking Leenhoff if he could find it for him.