Letters received, ca. 1819-1871.

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Letters received, ca. 1819-1871.

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Collection consists primarily of letters from artists to the comte de Forbin and the artist Cailleux (director and secretary, respectively, of the Musees Royaux), 1819-1849, and to the comte de Nieuwerkerke, (director general of museums and superintendent of Beaux-Arts), 1849-1870. Letters contain appeals for assistance, descriptions of work commissioned or submitted, notes on Old Master paintings and other paintings in the collection, and other business. Writers include Auguste de Chatillon, Louis Jacques Daguerre (concerning his dioramas), Charles Daubigny, Adrien Dauzats, Pierre Jean David d'Angers, Jean Francois Gigoux, Henri Harpignies, Eugene Isabey, A.J. Lorents, Henri Joseph Redoute, Theodore Rousseau, Horace Vernet, and others. Letters are organized alphabetically by correspondent. Included in the collection are one letter by Cailleux; four letters by Nieuwerkerke (1837-1858); two addressed to Leon Gatayes, the art and music critic; and two letters from the comte de Forbin.

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Daguerre, Louis, 1787-1851

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Photographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x000183 ...

Dauzats, Adrien, 1804-1868

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French painter. From the description of Correspondence, ca. 1844-1853. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78799980 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Paris], to J.A. Carrier, [no year] Nov. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526431 Adrien Dauzats was a French painter. From the description of Autographed pencil drawing, ca. 1855-1856. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155887982 ...

Gigoux, Jean, 1806-1894

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Jean Gigoux was a French painter. From the description of Autographed ink portrait sketch of Félix Nadar, ca. 1855-1856. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155887801 French painter. From the description of Letter, 1861 Feb. 6. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 145996742 ...

France. Musees royaux.

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Gatayes, Leon.

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Harpignies, Henri, 1819-1916

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French artist. From the description of Correspondence, 1838-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81666523 Harpignies was a French painter; R. Horace Gallatin was evidently an art collector. From the description of Henri Joseph Harpignies letter to R. Horace Gallatin, 1908. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122454361 ...

Isabey, Eugène (1803-1886).

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French painter. From the description of Letters and ephemera, 1836-1868. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81254163 French marine painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to the painter L.A. Carrier, "Mardi 18" [no year]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871124 ...

Cailleux, Achille-Alexandre-Alphonse de Cailloux de, 1788-1876

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Chartillon, Auguste de.

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David d'Angers, Pierre-Jean, 1788-1856

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French sculptor. His involvment in the 1848 Revolution led to his arrest after the coup d'état in 1851. Condemned to exile, he travelled all over Europe, returning to France only shortly before his death. From the description of Correspondence and related papers, 1826-1859. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84155149 French sculptor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to a colleague, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2705...

Vernet, Horace, 1789-1863

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French painter and lithographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Versailles, 28 August 1840, to M. [Hector] Berlioz in Paris, 1840 Aug. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270677983 French painter. From the description of Letters, ca. 1812-1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79720558 ...

Nieuwerkerke, Alfred-Emilien O'Hara, comte de, 1811-1892

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Redouté, Henri-Joseph 1766-1852

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Daubigny, Charles-François, 1817-1878

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French painter and printmaker. From the description of Charles-François Daubigny letters and receipts, 1839-1870. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80804126 French landscape painter. From the description of Letter and receipt, 1839-1876. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78462013 ...

Forbin, Comte de 1777-1841.

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Rousseau, Théodore, 1812-1867

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Epithet: President of the American Club in Paris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000312 Epithet: formerly servant of Napoleon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000161.0x0001d4 Artist. From the description of Letter of Théodore Rousseau, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015410 French landsc...