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Nineteenth-century French artists' letters and other papers, 1719-1921

Title: Nineteenth-century French artists' letters and other papers 1719-1921

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.

ArchivalResource: 90 items

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Detaille, Edouard, 1848-1912. Battle scene, possibly during the Franco-Prussian War : lithograph, nd.

Title: Battle scene, possibly during the Franco-Prussian War : lithograph, nd.

Cavalry battle raging between German and French soldiers in a wooded landscape.

ArchivalResource: 1 print ; image 18 x 29.5 cm. on onion skin 21.5 x 31.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754864019 View

Bonaparte, Mathilde-Lætitia-Wilhelmine, princesse, 1820-1904. Mathilde-Lætitia-Wilhelmine Bonaparte letters, 1850-1936, (bulk 1850-1904).

Title: Mathilde-Lætitia-Wilhelmine Bonaparte letters, 1850-1936, (bulk 1850-1904).

Approximately 150 ALS written by Princess Mathilde, many are on her embossed stationery, some with the Bonaparte bee in gold, to several correspondents, including Alexander II, Marquis de Custine, Cardinal Donnet, Théophile Gautier, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Duc de Morny, Général Exelmans, Maréchal Pélissier, Jules Janin, Eugène Giraud, and Baron James de Rothschild. Accompanied by clippings about the Princess, several of them written at the time of her death. There are also postcards of her house at Saint-Gratien, and portrait engravings.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702138718 View

Palais de l'industrie (Paris, France). Letters received, ca. 1883-1904, by the commissaire general (M. Pretet)

Title: Letters received, ca. 1883-1904, by the commissaire general (M. Pretet)

Letters and calling cards received from artists recommending paintings for upcoming Salons and including, in most instances, titles of paintings, dimensions, specifications concerning installation and justifications of their recommendations. Correspondents include Albert Besnard, Leon Bonnat, Gustave Courtois, Francois Flameng, Alfred Roll, Henri Harpignies, Edouard Detaille, Jean-Jacques Henner, Albert Maignan and William Adolphe Bouguereau.

ArchivalResource: 77 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80905899 View

Detaille, Jean Baptiste Edouard, 1848-1912 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Detaille, Jean Baptiste Edouard, 1848-1912 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/199308926 View

Comerre, Léon, 1850-1916. Letters received, 1872-1907.

Title: Letters received, 1872-1907.

Collection consists of letters to the academic painters Leon Francois Comerre and Jacqueline Comerre-Paton, and to (the critic?) Emilie Paton. Ninety of the letters are addressed to Leon Comerre, primarily as submissions of paintings to the annual Salon, while the remaining letters largely pertain to articles written by Emilie Paton. Correspondents include Luc-Olivier Merson, Marcellin Desboutin, Louise Abbema, Eugene Carriere, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Albert Besnard, Albert Maignan, Jules Breton, Benjamin Constant, Henri Gervex, Edouard Detaille, Leon Bonnat, Felix Ziem, Edouard de Beaumont, and Fernand Cormon. Arranged chronologically.

ArchivalResource: ca. 110 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83206799 View

Thomas Sully letters

Title: Thomas Sully letters

Letters from Sully, one sending his autograph to Rodney A. Mercur, April 27, 1870; and to the Literary Society of Marshal College decling his election as an honorary member of the society, May 6, 1839; a copy of an engraving by John Sartain of Sully, signed by Sully; and a letter to "Jasper" from Sully's son, Thomas, Jr., responding for his father in his absence, July 1831.

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c1a692ef-c9fc-49e0-a0e1-21ea3060e825 View

Harpignies, Henri, 1819-1916. Correspondence, 1838-1911.

Title: Correspondence, 1838-1911.

Collection includes six detailed letters, some illustrated, to his mother, commenting on the economics of the art world, his relations with dealers, his views on art, and the sale and exhibition of work (1850-1887); two letters to Edouard Detaille mentioning Harpignies' activity as a watercolorist (1889-1891); nine letters to the cellist Delsart (1883-1911); and another letter to an unknown correspondent describing his lack of interest in experimenting with new paints (1896). Letters received include two from his mother reflecting on her son's vocation and seventeen letters from 1875 congratulating the artist on receiving the Legion of Honor. Correspondents include Joseph Vantillard, Maxime Lalanne, Alfred de Curzon, Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet, Alexandre Abel Felix Lauwich, Emile Lambinet, Evariste Vital Luminais, Philippe Rousseau and Leon Leguime. One letter from Elisee Lucat contains an original musical composition for cello dedicated to Harpignies and entitled "Un echo de l'Italie." With a copy of a 1934 Drouot catalogue indicating prices of works sold and a photograph of the artist (1912). In chronological order.

ArchivalResource: ca. 60 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81666523 View

John Nicholas Brown (1861-1900) papers, Brown (John Nicholas) (1861-1900) papers, (bulk 1881-1900), 1871-1900

Title: John Nicholas Brown (1861-1900) papers Brown (John Nicholas) (1861-1900) papers (bulk 1881-1900) 1871-1900

John Nicholas Brown (1861-1900) was the eldest son of John Carter Brown and Sophia Augusta (Brown) Brown, members of one of the most prominent and distinguished families in Rhode Island. The papers reflect John Nicholas Brown's passion for the arts, travel, Europe, yachts, and philanthropic and civic activities.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 Linear feet

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2007.010&view=title View

Marguerite Noël Willaume Coudet autograph album, 1903-1921.

Title: Marguerite Noël Willaume Coudet autograph album, 1903-1921.

Autograph album of early twentieth-century writers and poets, collected by Marguerite Noël Willaume Coudet.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00654/catalog View

M. Knoedler & Co. Letters received, 1890-1920.

Title: Letters received, 1890-1920.

Collection consists of letters addressed primarily to Roland Knoedler and to the director of his gallery in Paris, Hamman. The letters are from artists and concern business matters, studio visits, rights of reproduction, as well as work in progress. Correspondents include Lawrence Alma Tadema (1895-1901); Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour (1901-1906); Albert Besnard (1900); Jules Breton (1902); Jean Charles Cazin (1896-1907); Theobald Chartran (1907); Edouard Detaille (1900-1904); Firmin Girard (1890-1911); Francois Flameng (1891-1909); Emile Friant (n.d.); Francois Grison (n.d.); Georges Haquette (1896-97); Jules Lefebvre (1892-95); Madeleine Lemaire (1892-1913); Leon Lhermitte (1900-1912); Jean-Ferdinand Monchablon (1897-98); and Fritz Thaulow (1900-1905). The collection also includes one letter from the writer Theodore Duret (1917). In alphabetical order by correspondent.

ArchivalResource: ca. 200 items.7 microfiche use copy.7 microfiche master copy.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81254129 View

Detaille, Edouard, 1848-1912. Edouard Detaille letters and receipt to Samuel P. Avery and Monsieur Lucas, 1875-1891, undated.

Title: Edouard Detaille letters and receipt to Samuel P. Avery and Monsieur Lucas, 1875-1891, undated.

ArchivalResource: 11 sheets.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/750152810 View

Neymark, Gustave Mardoché, b. 1850. Letters received, 1880-1912.

Title: Letters received, 1880-1912.

Most of the letters concern minor business and personal matters, but there is some reference made to commissions received and to criticism of Neymark's work. Correspondents include Leon Bonnat, Edouard Detaille, Paul DuBois, Henri Gervex, Alphonse de Neuville, Theophile Steinlen and George Scott.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82218255 View

Cazin, Jean-Charles, 1841-1901. Letters to Edouard Detaille, 1881-1900.

Title: Letters to Edouard Detaille, 1881-1900.

Jean-Charles Cazin is grateful to his friend Edouard Detaille for helping him to be admitted to the Société des aquarellistes (1881 Dec. 14). Not satisfied with his achievements, he resigns his membership, and hopes that Detaille will defend the reasons for his decision (1884 Jan. 21). The artist sends his friend a croquis as a souvenir for the charming drawings Cazin gave to his son (1885 May 9). A letter from 1889 Aug. 13 speaks about Cazin's expectations of some good news, which could be helped along if Detaille would send Jules Fr. a letter. On 1900 Sept. 19 the artist expresses his desire to present himself again to the Academy, and requests Detaille's support for the approval of his project.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79260726 View

Beugniet, Adrien. Letters received, 1854-1908.

Title: Letters received, 1854-1908.

Collection consists of letters received from several correspondents, mostly artists. The letters concern practical matters, namely the framing, price and shipment of paintings. Of particular interest is one letter from Espargiliere of the "Maison imperiale" regarding the framing of the portraits of the Princes Napoleon and Jerome. Correspondents include Charles Chaplin, Daubigny, Edouard Detaille, J.-L. Gerome, Eugene Isabey, Marie Cazin, Gavarni, Eugene Fromentin, Jules Breton, F. L. Francais, Theodore Chasseriau, and Felix Ziem. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77748467 View

Detaille, Edouard, 1848-1912. Letters, 1869-1912.

Title: Letters, 1869-1912.

Letters addressed to, among others, Eugene Manuel, Armand Dayot, Paul de Saint-Victor, Diogène Maillart, Henry Lapauze and Louis Secchi. The letter to Manuel talks about the results of a juried exhibition; a letter of ca. 1880 describes work he is doing on costumes for the opera and specifically mentions Offenbach's "Carmen." A three page letter, 1894 Feb. 26, to Secchi discusses work on a statue of Marechal Mac Mahon showing particular concern for the versimilitude of the military uniform. The undated letter addressed to "Georges" describes his recollections of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune.

ArchivalResource: 61 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83862105 View

Photographs of artists in their Paris studios

Title: Photographs of artists in their Paris studios

47 photographs of 43 artists in their Paris studios. Artists include: Louise Abbema, Albert Aublet, Riene Bellcourt, Jean Beraud, Paul Albert Besnard, Maurice Bompard, Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, Gustave Rodolphe Clarence Boulanger, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Georges Jules Victor Clairin, Louis Joseph Rapheal Collin, Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant, Fernand Cormon, Gustave Courtois, Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan, Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, Ernest Ange Duez, Carolus Duran, Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere, T. R. Fleury, J. Frappa, Walter Gay, Jean Leon Gerome, Henri Gervex, George Peter Alexander Healy, Antoine Auguste Ernest Hebert, Jean Jacques Henner, Charles Jacques, Jean Paul Laurens, Jules Lefebvre, Albert Maignan, Luc Olivier Merson, Aime Nicolas Morot, Mihaly Munkacsy, Alphonse Wane de Neuville, Georges Rochegrosse, Alfred Philippe Roll, John Singer Sargent, Alfred Stevens, and George Adolphus Storey.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9d72c6ec1-5b7a-4403-b206-44c6cad4ca33 View

Detaille, Edouard, 1848-1912. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694879876 View

Papers, [ca. 1850]-1905.

Title: Papers, [ca. 1850]-1905.

Collection includes Avery's diary referring to his travels in Europe, 1871-1882; a scrapbook of samples of his work; and autographs and sketches sent to Avery from such American and European artist friends as Edouard Detaille, Henri Lefort, W.J. Linton, W.H. Vanderbilt, J.G. Vibert, and J.A.M. Whistler. Catalogs and notes of Avery's works and art collections; editorials and resolutions in memory of Avery, 1905; and letters written to Avery's wife upon his death. Copies of children's books containing his illustrations and printed proof sheets of etchings designed by Avery.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86160752 View

Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, 1834-1904. Letters received, 1902.

Title: Letters received, 1902.

Letters to Jules Comte, editor of the Revue, and others, from Edouard Detaille and Frederic Bartholdi; concerning photographs of their work.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80590071 View

Ade, Mathilde, 1877-1930. 19th century French artists' letters and other papers, 1719-1921.

Title: 19th century French artists' letters and other papers, 1719-1921.

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.

ArchivalResource: 95 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83048610 View