Jean-François RAFFAËLLI on The Autumn of Life, 1907 signed autograph letter

  
With one of his merchants, Jean-François Raffaelli proposes to try to sell his painting. He offers to buy at cost price a portion of the paintings in his stock and to exchange the others for new ones. He invites him to come have lunch at his place. Among the other guests will be "little Peixotto, brother of the director of L'Équitable in Paris, the correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle. Since 1895, the painter has made a name for himself in the United States by exhibiting at Durand-Ruel in New York. Featuring a couple standing at the threshold of old age, which he presented at the National Salon of Fine Arts in 1907, is apparently not in a museum. Recently, a private gallery had it for sale.