PUVIS DE CHAVANNES Pierre - ALS 1879 Period_Napoleonic

PUVIS DE CHAVANNES Pierre - ALS 1879 Period_NapoleonicPierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES (1824 1898) Autograph Letter Signed (P. Puvis de Chavannes) to an unidentified colleague (Monsieur et cher confrre), explaining why he had resigned from a jury. 3 pages 8vo in French, Paris, 26 March 1879. Puvis de Chavannes, much admired by Zola, is best remembered as a muralist, responsible for murals at the Sorbonne, the Hotel de Ville in Paris and Boston Public Library. Trans: In response to the letter in which you do me

possibly the director of a theatre

regretting that he cannot read his manuscript on mediaeval stained glass

and later served on the Russian campaign

a common mistake for many at the beginning of each year

2 pages 4to with integral blank leaf

over five hundred bombs or mortars on this cavalcade

and write and tell me your last name

Autograph Letter Signed (“Isabey”) to a fellow artist

they embraced warmly

with their different uniforms

At the outbreak of the war

met a lot of other friends