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Lot n° 37
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DELACROIX Eugène (1798-1863). — L.A.S. «Eugène Delacroix», 10 décembre 1818, à Charles SOULIER, à l'Hôtel de l'intendance du domaine extraordinaire, place Vendôme ; 1 page et demie in-8, adresse ; en anglais. — Rare lettre en anglais à...

Estimation : 1200 - 1500
Adjudication : 1 690 €
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son ami Soulier qui l'initie à l'aquarelle.
[Charles SOULIER (1792-1866) a connu Delacroix en 1816 par l'entremise de leur ami Horace RAISSON. Ayant longtemps séjourné en Angleterre, Soulier avait été initié à l'aquarelle par Copley Fielding, et il initia à son tour Delacroix, alors dans l'atelier de Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, à cette technique, notamment en exécutant des dessins de machines pour des brevets d'invention, dont il est ici question.] «Dear Friend I am very displeased to cannot to go Saturday to pass the night in your pleasant company : for I have promised another person to see her that day ; it is not, as you shall imagine and Mester Horace also, without a great discontentement ; but I hope it will not be the last time, we shall have the opportunity of come together. I thank you at your Italian-English-french and grateful letter : I conjure you to excuse my bad english language. I dare, a little time past, with your obligeant lessons, I will better speak and write in that fair tongue, in which I am so desiderous to be readily instructed. Should Mester Raisson, have the complaisance to go on Saturday in the morning at M. Guérin's house, or Sunday at my own, likewise in the morning, we could together so resolve, in what day we can to begin our undertaking of colorage, which I wish to see quickly termined. Your sincere friend and thankful disciple»...
— Correspondance générale (t. I, p. 37).

L.A.S. "Eugène Delacroix", 10 December 1818, to Charles SOULIER, at the Hôtel de l'intendance du domaine extraordinaire, place Vendôme ; 1 1/2 pages in-8, addressed ; in English. — Rare letter in English to his friend Soulier who introduced him to watercolour. [Charles SOULIER (1792-1866) met Delacroix in 1816 through their friend Horace RAISSON. Having spent a long time in England, Soulier had been introduced to watercolour by Copley Fielding, and he in turn introduced Delacroix, then in the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, to the technique, including executing drawings of machines for patents, which are discussed here]. "Dear Friend I am very displeased to be unable to go Saturday to pass the night in your pleasant company : for I have promised another person to see her that day ; it is not, as you shall imagine and Mester Horace also, without a great discontent ; but I hope it will not be the last time, we shall have the opportunity of coming together. I thank you at your Italian-English-french and grateful letter : I conjure you to excuse my bad english language. I dare, a little time past, with your obligeant lessons, I will better speak and write in that fair tongue, in which I am so desiderous to be readily instructed. Should Mester Raisson, have the complaisance to go on Saturday in the morning at M. Guérin's house, or Sunday at my own, likewise in the morning, we could together so resolve, in what day we can to begin our undertaking of colorage, which I wish to see quickly terminated. Your sincere friend and thankful disciple"... — Correspondance générale (t. I, p. 37).
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