Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES. L.A.S., Paris July 1, 1894, to Se - Lot 285

Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES. L.A.S., Paris July 1, 1894, to Senator Édouard de Marcère; 5pages in-8. As President of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, he highly recommends the sculptor Arthur Le Duc (1848-1918), whose career he traces and points out the most remarkable works, from the Centaur and Bacchante in the Caen museum to the equestrian statue of the Connétable de Richemond... "Le Duc seems to have devoted himself to retracing the glory of the great men of Normandy, where he has retired. Any leisure time left to him by the administration of his commune, he devotes to work, and if a town calls upon his talent, it is generously that he offers his labor without any remuneration"...