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Letter from Camille Pissarro, Paris, to Eugène Murer, 1878? : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
444737
Accession number
MA 3950.3:306
Creator
Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1878?.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 13.5 x 10.3 cm
Notes
Undated. Possible year of writing from contents and pencil note on the letter.
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
Regarding the price he has quoted to paint Murer's portrait and how he determined it; writing at length about Renoir.