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Collection of letters by artists, mainly France, 1878-1895 and n.d.
Approximately 50 letters in all, several addressed to the art dealers Allard and Noel or Messrs Tédesco frères. Provenance: Sotheby's, 17 & 18 November 1988, lot 211.

Collection of letters from artists including Fantin-Latour, Corot, Moreau and others.

The letters include:
Henri Fantin-Latour (9 July 1895, expressing pleasure at the sale of his painting 'Les Baigneuses', 'cette toile est de celles que je considère comme une de mes meilleures'), Camille Corot (ordering canvases), Gustave Moreau, Charles Stuart (2, from London), Félix Ziem, Ernest Meissonier, Alfred Guillou, Émile Lévy and others.
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