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INVENTORY OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH ARTISTS' LETTERS AND OTHER PAPERS, 1719-1921
2000.M.23
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Title: Nineteenth-century French artists' letters and other papers
Date (inclusive): 1719-1921
Collection number: 2000.M.23
Extent:
90 items
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: This assembled collection comprises 85 items, mainly letters, notes, and cards written by 30 identified French artists, and
10 of other nationalities, on various subjects related to their professional and private lives.
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Language: Collection material is in French
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Nineteenth-century French artists' letters and other papers, 1719-1921, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession
no. 2000.M.23.
Acquired in 2000.
Processed by Onica Busuioceanu.
Scope and Content of Collection
A composite collection, assembled by an English dealer. This composite collection comprises 85 items with identified authors,
and 10 unidentified. It consists mainly of letters, notes, and cards written by 30 identified French artists, and 10 of other
nationalities, on various subjects related to their professional and private lives.
Among the most significant are 16 letters by Edouard Detaille, revealing details of his private and public activities; some
of Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier's letters reflecting his continued fight against his detractors; the comments of Louis Emile
Dardoize to his biographer; a letter written by Louis Etienne Waltelet while he was sketching the Echelles de Savoye; and
3 letters of David d'Angers revealing details of his professional life. The correspondence of artists of other nationalities
includes the following: Mathilde Ade sends samples of bookplates, with a note on which her photograph is printed; Sigmund
Lipinski wants to send bookplate samples, but sends the prices first. Otto Heyden describes his trip across Italy. Paul Tetar
van Elven is in Italy, hoping to obtain an important commission. An unidentified Spanish painter describes the artistic life
in Madrid and the frustrating behavior of the exhibition juries. The other 9 items in this unidentified group are about various
personal matters.
A French document written on parchment and dated Bayonne, 1719 Nov. 27, is also included in the collection. It is a receipt
signed by Guy Renéì de la Chevallerie de la Motte for 116 livres, received as payment for two months of his appointment as
“ingeìnieur ordinaire du roy" in the ongoing war.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in one series, alphabetically.
Clairin, Georges, 1843-1919--Correspondence
Clésinger, Jean-Baptiste, 1814-1883--Correspondence
Cazin, Jean Charles, 1841-1919--Correspondence
David d'Angers, Pierre-Jean, 1788-1856--Correspondence
Detaille, Edouard, 1848-1912--Correspondence
Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904--Correspondence
Gudin, Jean-Antoine Theìodore, 1802-1880--Correspondence
Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891--Correspondence
Artists--France--Correspondence
Artits--Europe--Correspondence
Albumen prints
Book plates
Receipts.
Ade, Mathilde, 1877-1930
Berthelon, Eugène, 1829-1914
Cabanel, Alexandre, 1823-1889
Calmettes, Fernand, 1846-1914
Cazin, Jean Charles, 1841-1901
Clairin, Georges, 1843-1919
Clésinger, Jean Baptiste, 1814-1883
Colin, Paul Alfred, 1838-1916
Dardoize, Emile, 1826-1901
David d'Angers, Pierre-Jean, 1788-1856
David, Jules, 1808-1892
Desnoyers, Auguste Gaspard Louis, baron, 1779-1857
Detaille, Edouard, 1848-1912
Dubray, Vital Gabriel, 1813-1892
Duval-Lecamus, Pierre, 1790-1856
Gérôme, Jean Leìon, 1824-1904
Granet, Francois-Marius, 1775-1849.
Gravillon, Arthur Antoine Alphonse de, 1828-1899
Gudin, Jean-Antoine Theìodore, 1802-1880
Guérin, Paulin-Jean-Baptiste, 1783-1855
Harpignies, Henri, 1819-1916
Hymans, Henri, 1836-1912
Lipinsky, Sigmund, 1873-1940
Lory, Matthias Gabriel,1784-1846
Marold, Ludek, 1865-1898
Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891
Miciol, Pierre, 1833-1905
Monnier, Henry, 1799-1877
Percier, Charles, 1764-1838
Rochet, Louis, 1813-1878