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Letter from an unidentified writer, Paris, to Léon Leenhoff?, 1884 December 22 : manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
445520
Accession number
MA 3950.3:29
Display Date
Paris, France, 1884 December 22.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 15.7 x 9.9 cm
Notes
The banquet was held at the Père Lathuille on January 5, 1885.
Written from "221 Bd d'Enfer."
Forms part of the Tabarant collection 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
Offering, on the occasion of the banquet in Manet's honor (which he cannot attend), a proof of the portrait of Manet that the letter-writer had recently engraved.