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Letter from Antonin Proust to Léon Leenhoff, 1883? : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
447735
Accession number
MA 3950.3:316
Creator
Proust, Antonin, 1832-1905.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1883?.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.1 x 12.5 cm
Notes
Undated. Based on the contents, the letter may have been written during Manet's final illness.
Forms part of the Tabarant collection, papers related to the artist Édouard Manet.
A pencil note on the letter indicates that it is addressed "A Koëlla."
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
Asking for news of Manet; saying that he himself has had a night of suffering.