[CHATEAUBRIAND] - Lot 73

Lot n° 73
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[CHATEAUBRIAND] - Lot 73
[CHATEAUBRIAND] Letter to Mr. de Chateaubriant on Mountain Landscapes. c. 1810. Handwritten draft with additions, erasures and corrections, 4 pages in-4 in black ink on two pages. no place, no date. Sir, I read with the greatest eagerness an article of February 1st which seemed to promise a magnificent painting.the name of the painter and the grandeur of the subject had seduced my imagination and my heart in advance.the original and vigorous brush which so happily retraced the beauty of the deserts and the dark majesty of the forests of the new world, an energetic and true painting of the greatest spectacle that nature offers to the eyes of man in our old Europe. The aspect of this chain covered with dazzling glaciers and resplendent snows, all spiked with sharp peaks furrowed in all directions by dreadful precipices and sometimes by laughing valleys, these striking and sublime contrasts which unceasingly bring the greatness of God's works closer to the smallness of man, seemed to me worthy of inspiring genius and warming the soul of a poet [...].
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