French and Flemish artists

EDOUARD MANET (to an unidentified correspondent, expressing his wish for him to come to his studio, 1 page, no date); ALFRED SISLEY (concerning some painting, 1 page, 22 December 1896), ALFRED STEVENS (2, one about a painting by his brother Joseph, 1 page, 16 November 1892), AUGUSTE RODIN, LUCIEN PISSARRO (to Théodore Duret, providing information about his father, 2 pages), SALVADOR DALI (on a postcard, to Monsieur and Madame Jouvenel), Déveria, Ziem (about his painting of the port of Venice, 1 page, 2 April 1896), Willette, ARTHUR SZYK (photograph of one of his works, signed and inscribed), Raffaëlli (2)

...[Manet] J'ai reçu hier seulement l'autorisation de M. Mayer [?]... mais je voudrais bien que vous passiez un de ces jours à l'atelier...



c.37 pages, various sizes, including an autograph envelope by Alfred Stevens and an autograph letter signed by the lexicographer Frédéric Mistral, Paris, Dieppe, Moret-sur-Loing, and elsewhere, 1885-c.1932, where indicated

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