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"On a voulu s'arrêter à cent sociétaires"" Autograph letter signed to the painter Lucien Hector Monod
1890715521890. Fine. 3 février 1890 11.20 x 17.40 cm une feuille rempliée Autograph letter from painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret to painter Lucien Monod. The painter offers his apologies following the refusal to nominate two friends of painter Monod as associates of the newly created Société nationale des beaux-arts. 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 the New York Frick family. « . Neither Mr Burgers nor Jules Girardet could pass as Associates. They were both named associate members. We wanted to limit ourselves to one hundred associates for the moment. . » unknown
