ROSA BONHEUR CAIN, Auguste, Georges, Henri. 3 signed letters, 1873–96

  
Signed autograph letter, one and a half pages, dated May 17, 1873, on handsome laid paper with watermark, making 4 in-12 pages (17.5 cm x 11.5 cm). “Dear Sir [Jules Mène], The pheasant hen I was supposed to deliver is not fully finished. Next Tuesday it will be entirely at your disposal. I am sending back the peacock’s paw, asking you to please have a porcelain proof made of it so that I can see the effect of my work under the glaze. I would be very grateful if it were carefully handled, as it is the study that is to serve me for the group I am going to begin again.”

He took part regularly in the Paris Salon from 1846 onward. In 1852 he married the daughter of the animal sculptor Pierre-Jules Mène, and took over the foundry after his father-in-law’s death in 1879.

Known for his animal sculptures, he was nicknamed “the sculptor of lions and tigers.” Georges Jules Auguste CAÏN.

Signed autograph letter, two pages on laid paper with watermark, making 4 in-12 pages (17.5 cm x 11.5 cm). “Dear friend, It is true that Rosa [Bonheur] was in Paris yesterday.

But she is no longer here this morning. She is a wild one. She left for Dy at 4:22. But she is due back in a few days to go to the salons. I will take the opportunity to stop her carriage and have her come up to see you.

But we will have to act very quickly. She will never give you more than a quarter of an hour. You cannot imagine how reluctant she is. But I will do everything possible to oblige you.

”

And an apology note signed. Card (11 cm x 9 cm), signed autograph. “My friends, Thank you very much for your very kind compliments; but for July 14 I must decline.

I have no such ambition, and the decoration will bring more happiness to someone else than to your devoted servant.”

Three signed autograph thank-you notes, 2 on letters and 1 by telegram, in 1898, to Mr.

Haquette, 11 rue Blanche, Paris. A signed telegram from 1893 to Madame Haquette, 11 rue Blanche, Paris.

“At this very moment I am arriving from Rouen, where I left yesterday at noon on a whim. I find your note; please let me keep your fan for about fifteen days. Extremely urgent work has deprived me of the pleasure of making something serious for you.”

Followed by a postscript for Mr. Haquette, (hard to read), in which something is granted only for Nadar.