Edgar Degas Long Autograph Letter Signed 4 Pages About His Sister

  
For many years, the autograph library has specialized in the sale of autograph letters and manuscripts. Signed autograph letter to sophie niaudet-berthelot. "I don't always do what I have to do. Very beautiful letter from degas, in both friendly and family tone, congratulating her friend on her daughter's marriage and giving parallel news of her sister marguerite recently emigrated to Argentina.

"My dear sophie, on Sunday only I found on returning to bet your good letter. The marriage, if I didn't go there (because of your fault, or because of your praise, or even mine since I was too far away) I saw it in time, enough to write to you and congratulate you on it. So almost all the wrongs are mine. A daisy letter from there.

On August 18, very long, very good mood, very comforting for us. Your paz friends' recommendations would seem to be as useful and active as we wanted. You'd have been a famous blow to them, my dear sophie, and the poor people deserved it. Marguerite was going to write to her friends, she said, to you first.

And maybe you'll get something? [the daughter of marguerite] had written to me for montevideo, saying that the crossing had been excellent and that all were well.

I could have written something to you about this, like the wedding of your lovely camille. And I didn't, because I don't always do what I have to. This is the address there; calle callao 2037. You are very capable, without waiting for marguerite to begin, of writing to him there, because you are, my dear sophie, made of a dough of friendship that never dries.

Lovely memories to berthelot, and compliments to the bride, whose pretty head I still remember, although I have seen it far too little. Sophie niaudet-berthelot (1837-1907), niece of louis bréguet, married Marcellin berthelot in 1861. Six children were born of this union, including camille berthelot (1864.1928), the third child of the couple, whose degas evokes here the marriage with charles victor Langlois, celebrated at the temple of the oratory, in Paris, on August 26, 1889.

Sophie niaudet-berthelot was the first woman buried in the pantheon, where she rested with her husband. In a difficult financial situation as a result of bad business, fèvre hoped for a new start in Argentina. Sophie berthelot seems to have interceded in favor of the couple as suggested by the painter: "You will have been with a famous shoulder stroke, my dear sophie, and the poor people deserved it well. Degas never saw his sister again, who died in Argentina in 1895 at the age of 53. Consult our manuscripts The Autograph Gallery of Centuries specializes in the sale and expertise of autograph letters and manuscripts of the great personalities of past centuries. Purchase / payment methods we accept the following methods of payment: transfers and bank cheques. The prices shown are in euros and are net.

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