Georges-Antoine ROCHEGROSSE beautiful signed autograph letter on Paris and Algeria

  

The painter thanks a mutual friend (named) for an article published in L'Afrique du Nord illustrée, which appeared a month ago. He justifies this delay by "this kind of true enchantment that Paris exerts on artists, even on old men. At least in his life in our dear beautiful Algeria, so beautiful and so enticing. But also so far from everything in terms of art.

So many sympathetic or annoying art discussions, but so captivating!!!! I know well that over there there is the sky and the roses, but here there are also trees and...

Surely this would have interested Leonardo da Vinci! With humor, he thanks his correspondent and admirer of his painting for the good sympathy that warms his old heart and "this kind appeal that you kindly address to my old works. A certain atmosphere of life and struggles. Before being sadly rolled up in cellars for the astonishment of mice and spiders.

And becoming old forgotten ladies suffering from rheumatism. Like their author and father.