Demande de prêt d’une copie du portrait de Madame Ingres par - Lot 235

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Demande de prêt d’une copie du portrait de Madame Ingres par - Lot 235
Demande de prêt d’une copie du portrait de Madame Ingres par la mairie de Montauban pour l’inauguration du Musée Ingres. Handwritten letter on letterhead of the town hall of Montauban, April 3, 1869 addressed to Mr. Varcollier rue de Parme,5, Paris; 1 page in-4 The city of Montauban wishing to give as much sparkle and interest as possible to the inauguration of the Ingres Museum which is to take place on April 17, the time of the opening of a Regional Competition, I hoped that you would be so kind as to lend us, for one month, the beautiful copy of the portrait of Mrs. Ingres made by Madame Varcollier [...]. On the back of the same letter is the draft of a letter of reply from Mr Varcollier in which he exposes all the risks of deterioration taken for his painting during transport. This is precisely what happened to the original of this admirable portrait during the exhibition that took place in Paris shortly after the death of Mr. Ingres. The irreparable deterioration of the Master's work has only made his copy, which I possess and which was made with such religious care and skill under the eyes of Mr. Ingres that he himself considered it a facsimile, all the more precious to us [...].
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