Published on The Morgan Library & Museum (https://www.themorgan.org)

Home > Letter from Claude Monet to Édouard Manet, 1875? June 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

Letter from Claude Monet to Édouard Manet, 1875? June 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID: 
224282
Accession number: 
MA 3950.3:268
Author: 
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
Created: 
Place of writing not identified, 1875? June 28.
Credit: 
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 19.7 x 12.8 cm
Notes: 

Possible year of writing from pencil note.
Forms part of the Tabarant collection, papers related to the artist Édouard Manet.

Summary: 

Saying that things are getting harder and harder, and that he has run out of money and credit at the butcher's and baker's; asking for twenty francs.

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.
Catalog Link: 
See more information »
Department: 
Literary and Historical Manuscripts