PASCAL M.Livre Rare Book
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Lettre autographe signée au peintre Lucien Hector Monod ""une figure de vieux Breton que je trouverai certainement dans un village""
1890715431890. Fine. s. d. circa 1890 13.80 x 9.50 cm une feuille rempliée Autograph letter from the painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret to the painter Lucien Monod declining an invitation in order to work on a new painting Un vieux breton now preserved at Chaalis in the museum of the royal abbey. One folded sheet. Trained in the studios of Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme Dagnan-Bouveret received the second Prix de Rome. Of naturalist inspiration he devoted himself to religious painting and had a prolific career as a portraitist at the end of his life. He received prestigious commissions from the Countess of Béarn and from the New York Frick family. His visits to Brittany inspired numerous canvases: ""Je vais en Bretagne pour travailler beaucoup aussi vite que je le pourrai à une figure de vieux breton que je ne trouverai certainement que dans un village et pas en ville et il me faut aussi toujours pour un travail une installation à la campagne ."" ""I am going to Brittany to work hard as quickly as I can on a figure of an old Breton whom I will certainly only find in a village and not in town and I also need always for work a countryside installation ."" unknown
