Ernest Hébert To Goupil Merchant Canvas Sale Gérôme Autograph Letter Signed

Signed autograph letter addressed to goupil (adolphe goupil, merchant and print editor). Rome, another hand added a date to the ink: January 1870. Interesting letter on trade between the painter and the merchant. Goupil was waiting for a painting of hebert for a sale, the latter explains to him why he has not yet made it. "You must have seen by the content of my dispatch to Mr. Moore that I was happy to enter into serious relations with you. Believe that if I didn't do it early it wasn't my fault: you will understand I hope by what feeling of reserve I didn't think I could warn you that I was sending betting paintings. I didn't forget the request you wanted to make me a year ago for the little painting of the sale but the law of the destruction of everything that is picturesque is beginning to be felt also in Roma.

The day I came to the lavatore del Papa to perform the painting of the sale I found a nice roof (.) Just worn by the hollow iron colonetta, a staircase very close to the gas lanterns finally everything I hate the most; so I withdrew, the tight courtyard of this new failure, from this disappearance of a corner full of character in front of modern civilization. That's why you haven't heard of the sale. I thought you'd forgotten it in the middle of so many more interesting cases. Receive my thanks for your memory.

You can count that in the future I will not be afraid to give you notice of my mailings paintings and among other things that of the girl whom you spoke about m. When you settle the money case with my friend m. Moore, remember that I am still your debtor of a sum of 600 and a few francs for the photograph of the raphael cortone. This is finally the time to live up to you." "Tell gérôme that I started something for his sale. This item is in the category "collections\letters, old papers\autographs\historical persons". The seller is "christophe6584" and is located in this country: en. This item can be shipped to the following country: whole world.

type: autograph, dedication