BIB_ID
444767
Accession number
MA 3950.3:324
Creator
Proust, Antonin, 1832-1905.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1899 March?.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Undated. Based on the contents, it may have been written around March 1899.
Forms part of the Tabarant collection, papers related to the artist Édouard Manet.
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 that Mademoiselle Geneviève Mallarmé may take a drawing from Méry Laurent's collection; mentioning Durand-Ruel and a beautiful drawing that he has; saying that he wrote to the mayor of the 1st arrondissement for Manet's birth certificate, but it seems that the state registers were lost in a fire in 1871; sending greetings to Madame Vibert.
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