[BÉNÉDITE, Léonce (1859-1925), art historian... - Lot 3 - Gros & Delettrez

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[BÉNÉDITE, Léonce (1859-1925), art historian... - Lot 3 - Gros & Delettrez
[BÉNÉDITE, Léonce (1859-1925), art historian and brilliant curator of French museums, notably the Musée du Luxembourg and the Musée Rodin.] Set of about 34 L.A.S. and 7 C.A. sometimes signed, addressed to Bénédite. 1893 and 1900. About 79 pp. of various sizes. Very interesting passive correspondence devoted to painting, his curatorial functions, etc. Collector and art critic Arsène Alexandre, about Benedict's museum project; symbolist painter Carlos Schwabe; painter and sculptor Daniel Dupuis; Belgian painter Émile Claus; Camille Jordan; patron and enlightened art collector Louis Meley; Sir Thomas Armstrong, director of the Science and Art Department of the South Kensington Museum; the Swiss writer and art historian Daniel Baud-Bovy, on his father Auguste; Émile Renard on Gagliardini and biography; the painter Georges Morand, on board the "Laos"; the painter Marco Calderini; Paul Deschanel; Emmanuel des Essarts; Raphaël Collin; the English draftsman and printer Samuel Calvert; the art historian specializing in Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt Woldemar von Seidlitz; Charles Michel, etc. An autograph letter from Benedict on the letterhead of the Musée du Luxembourg is enclosed. 2 pp. in-8.
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