Apr 23, 2009 - Sale 2177

Sale 2177 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
DENON, DOMINIQUE VIVANT; BARON DE. Autograph Letter Signed, "Denon," to [President of the Royal Society] Joseph Banks, in French, thanking him effusively for having requested a portrait. 3 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf; some short closed tears at folds on both leaves repaired with tissue, seal tear on terminal page affecting text repaired with tissue, mounted along hinge to a larger sheet. Paris, 3 June 1814
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Denon (1747-1825) was an illustrator and government official who accompanied Napoleon on the Egyptian campaign, later becoming his director-general of museums, and who was among the first to organize the collections in the Louvre.