CHAMPFLEURY signed autograph letter drawing stained glass Delacroix

  

Two stained glass designs by Delacroix. "You are not afraid to ask me if two designs for stained glass colored in watercolor by Delacroix would be a 'suitable gift' for the Sèvres manufacture. I would not be a serious 'curator' if I did not welcome this beautiful gift.

" "It is all the more interesting as a watercolor for one of the existing stained glass pieces at the manufacture has disappeared from the collections before my arrival." "When you return to Paris, please make a small package of the watercolors and the letters you mentioned here; I will have them taken, and I will inform Mr.

Lauth [Charles Lauth, then director of the National Manufacture of Sèvres] of your excellent idea upon my return." In postscript: "If my letters do not reach you in Paris, your last one arrived at Antwerp where I was studying Flemish ceramics. You still had not replied to me if you had found the Réforme [this refers to Champfleury's work: History of Caricature during the Reformation and the League: From Louis XIII to Louis XVI]." A glass painting workshop was opened in 1827 at Sèvres, for which prestigious painters, including Ingres, Delacroix, Devéria, Flandrin, and Vernet, were solicited.