Wine! Paul-Désiré TROUILLEBERT signed autograph letter to Paul NANCEY

  

Signed handwritten letter addressed to a certain "Nancey" (probably the painter Paul Nancey). Amusing letter in which the painter responds to a proposal for an exchange: painting for wine. "Certainly, I will be very happy to meet the kind man you speak of and to exchange a beautiful painting for his good wine from the vineyard: the oil that strengthens the muscles of wrestlers, as Baudelaire writes; that puts beautiful color in the eyes of poor painters, and that engenders poetry in the souls of convinced artists. knows his name and values his "dabbling." He will not serve the wine to ignorant drinkers; he will reserve it "for the only delicate throats.