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Letter from Léon Leenhoff, Bizy, to Adolphe Tabarant, 1922 November 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
444529
Accession number
MA 3950.3:194
Creator
Leenhoff, Léon, 1852-1927.
Display Date
Bizy, France, 1922 November 22.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 21.5 x 13.7 cm
Notes
Signed "L. Koëlla."
Place of writing given as: "Villa Lucie à Bizy / par Vernon (Eure)."
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 damage to Manet's painting "Olympia"; writing about Manet's will and his status as his mother's heir, not that of Manet; adding that the name Olympia came from Baudelaire.