BIB_ID
444807
Accession number
MA 3950.3:326
Creator
Proust, Antonin, 1832-1905.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1899 May 10.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.4 x 11.1 cm
Notes
Proust lists the place of writing as "32 blvd. 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
Mentioning that he has been busy with work for Maison Goupil; saying that he put the drawings by Manet that [Ambroise] Vollard sold him into three albums, adding some sketches from notebooks she gave him, and he has offered them to M. [Auguste] Pellerin for 1784 francs; saying that he will also try to persuade Pellerin to come to Asnières to discuss a portrait of Manet; asking to be remembered to Madame Vibert.
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