Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
YOUNG PAINTER INSPIRED BY THE OUTDOORS DELACROIX, EUGÈNE. Autograph Letter Signed, to his friend and future executor Achille Piron, in French, recounting the passion stirred in him by recent hunting experiences, touching on his appreciation for music and literature and languages, congratulating him for having committed to learn Italian, discussing his own translations from Dante's works, promising to send a package and asking that he write a long letter in reply. 3 pages, 4to, written on a folded sheet, with address leaf on terminal page; inkburn from large "X" drawn on address panel and also from few scattered words and strikethrough lines causing loss to portions of several words, marked bleedthrough overall, minor loss from seal tear. "Maison des Gardes" [Mansle], 16 September 1819
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". . . I wait patiently. I listen to the voice of the dogs . . . . That . . . warlike something . . . that awakens the imagination: but after a long wait, . . . the rifle, an inconvenient and useless piece of furniture, slips very gently from my hands . . . . The movement of the branches charms me . . . the clouds roll in front of me, I raise my head to follow them while I am thinking of some madrigal, when a slight noise . . . wakes me slowly from my dream. . . . Every day I complain about my carelessness and every day I see . . . hares. I really pity the poor dogs who are regularly tethered all the time they are not hunting . . . .
". . . I brought with me several songs from Dante, which . . . I had copied from an Italian edition . . . . When you are sufficiently advanced to hear this sublime poet, you will bless the hour when the idea occurred to you to study his language. What vigor, what imagination, what sweetness and what tender sadness . . . ."