Lot n° 25
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1000 - 1200
EUR
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: 2 048EUR
Joseph-Charles MARIN (1759-1834). 2 P.A.S. and 2 L.A.S., 179 - Lot 25
Joseph-Charles MARIN (1759-1834). 2 P.A.S. and 2 L.A.S., 1795-1815; 12 pages in-4, 3 addresses; mounted on laid paper, the whole bound in a volume in-4, brown half-basecloth.
Interesting collection of letters and pieces of the sculptor constituted by the Goncourts, with autograph notes of Jules de Goncourt in red ink on the intercalary sheets, and the ex-libris engraved by Gavarni.
19 vendémiaire IV (11 October 1795). Autograph copy signed of his memorandum addressed to the Commission of Instruction. Complaint concerning his "model in clay, representing maternity", sent to the Salon, where it was broken. He describes it: "a woman, surrounded by her children, I had applied myself to render with the truth of nature, in the attitude, in the looks and in all the features of the main figure this happy and incomparable affection, which is only found in the heart of mothers. [...] This model had cost me a lot of time and infinite work. I had given him all the perfection, of which I can be capable "...
18 brumaire X (9 November 1801), memorandum of his statue of Peace executed for the feast of Peace, on order of Chalgrin, plaster statue of 2,80 meters, "representing Peace offering the olive tree"; the document is stamped and signed by Chalgrin.
Lyon February and July 1814, and 10 August 1815. 3 letters to Mr. Vern. About his definitive installation in Lyon, where Artaud welcomed him at the Palais des Arts, where he teaches sculpture; he was worried about a sketched group in marble, which is in the depository of Canova; about engraved portraits of Louis XVIII, after which he is going to make his bust; he finally thinks of leaving Lyon, whose stay has become unbearable for him...
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