BURTY (Philippe). Maîtres et petits maîtres. Paris... - Lot 40 - Ader

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BURTY (Philippe). Maîtres et petits maîtres. Paris... - Lot 40 - Ader
BURTY (Philippe). Maîtres et petits maîtres. Paris : G. Charpentier, 1877. - In-18, green cloth, smooth spine, untrimmed (contemporary binding). First edition dedicated to Félix Bracquemond, of this very interesting work on painting and painters, all the more interesting as the author knew personally the artists whose portraits he paints. It is divided into 19 parts: "The Teaching of Drawing" - "The Studio of Mrs. O'Connell" - "J. P. M. Soumy, painter and engraver" - "Eugène Delacroix in Morocco" - "Les Etudes peintes de Th. Rousseau" - "Le lithographe Eugène Le Roux" - "Camille Flers" - "Les Portraits de Charles Méryon" - "Théodore Rousseau" - "Adrien Dauzats" - "Paul Huet" - "Sainte-Beuve, art critic" - "Gavarni" - "Jules de Goncourt" - "J. F. Millet" - "The Drawings of Victor Hugo" - "The Etchings of Jules de Goncourt" - "N. Diaz" - "Les Salons de Diderot". Copy from the library of the lawyer and bibliophile Alidor Delzant (1848-1905), close friend of Philippe Burty, secretary and executor of the Goncourt brothers' will. It has been enriched with two original unsigned drawings on tracing paper, pasted on the front and back of the first white endpaper as well as a L.A.S. from Philippe Burty, 1 1/2 pages in-16, about a dinner with Vacquerie. It also includes a very beautiful L.A.S. from Alidor Delzant, 3 pages in-12, dated June 16, 1890, addressed to the publicist and art critic Émile Durand-Gréville (1838-1914), concerning the death of Philippe Burty: "He arrived in Gascony on May 25, happy and at ease. We hoped to give him back his health here, in the calm and fresh air. The day after his arrival, happily leafing through Japanese albums, he was struck by an attack of paralysis. He remained more than eight days in a heavy sleep from which he was awakened, with great difficulty, to feed him with milk. Only once did my wife have the idea of carrying a spray of roses on his bed, and his artist's eye became sensitive again. A few incomprehensible words that we translated on his face, came out of his mouth; he kissed us both and then fell back into a coma. A frightful agony which lasted twenty-four hours soon followed. He seemed to be protecting himself from death with his free arm, as if it were a shield. His strong chest, from which came hoarse sounds, was shaken with violence. It is horrible to say: we had come to wish that death would deliver him. He then talks about Philippe Burty's will: "He bequeathed Delacroix's Carrying of the Cross and his album of sketches made in Morocco to the Louvre. He also asked him to go through his correspondence: "It is so rich and interesting that I intend to publish it and send it only to the curious". A very well preserved copy, despite some scattered foxing. The second original drawing is torn at two corners.
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