BIB_ID
444782
Accession number
MA 3950.3:338
Creator
Proust, Antonin, 1832-1905.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1900 December 5.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.3 x 13.5cm
Notes
Proust lists the place of writing as 32 Boulevard Haussmann.
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
Sending her 2,300 francs, Baron Vitta's payment for the sketch by Manet of the cavalier, and asking her to send a receipt; writing that he is entrusting the sketch of the equestrienne to the Louvre's restorer; expressing his disappointment that she did not consent to sell the portrait of Manet to the baron.
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