Nov 01, 2016 - Sale 2428

Sale 2428 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 100
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
VERNET, HORACE. Two Autograph Letters Signed, "H Vernet," to different recipients on various topics, in French. The first, to a married woman, thanking for a gift. 1 page, 12mo, mourning stationery, with integral blank. The second, to the Director of the School of Fine Arts, thanking him for disposing of some of Vernet's paintings, and informing him of Vernet's candidacy as supervisor of the school in Rome. 1 page, 8vo; inlaid. (MRS) Champagnette, 24 August 1859; Np, nd

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". . . I cannot bring myself to leave the place where I find myself so well. However, I will definitely have to come to terms with leaving Marie all alone and the first days of next week I will go to tell you the details of the good life that I had here for three months . . . ."