BIB_ID
444804
Accession number
MA 3950.3:321
Creator
Proust, Antonin, 1832-1905.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1899 February 12.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15 x 11.5 cm
Notes
A pencil note lists the year of writing as "1897." Based on the contents, the year of writing is most likely 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
Saying that he could not reach [Jean-Baptiste] Faure, who he doesn't think would be willing to take the portrait of him anyway; adding that M. [Auguste] Pellerin doesn't want to make any acquisitions for a few months; advising her to accept an offer of 6,000 francs; saying that M. Cézard will give her the frames for the two portraits of her husband soon; adding that she should wait to frame the "deux grandes toiles du cavalier et de l'amazone" because of the expense; asking her if she would entrust him with Manet's correspondence and proposing a publication; promising that any passages that she did not want made public could be suppressed.
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