GAUTIER THÉOPHILE Letter Signed to an unnamed recipient (“Si

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BEAUX-ARTS SOCIETY HONORS FOUNDER WITH EXHIBITION GAUTIER, THÉOPHILE. Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient ('Sir'), in French, soliciting submissions for the Society's exhibition of Delacroix's works. 2 pages, 4to, 'Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts' stationery, with integral blank; folds. Paris, 8 July 1864

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'The National Society of the Beaux-Arts is going to hold an exhibition of the works of Eugène Delacroix, one of its founders.
'. . . [W]e ask you if you would be willing to entrust to us the canvasses of the Master which you have the good fortune to own. . . .
'We have no doubt that you will wish to be of help to us in putting together a nation-wide collection in honor of one of France's greatest artists . . . .
'The Members of the Commission: Count Walewski, Honorary President, Marquis Maisons, Robert Fleury, Théophile Gautier, . . . The Founding Director, Louis Martinet.'