Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON. L.A.S., [end... - Lot 42 - Daguerre

Lot 42
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2000 - 2500 EUR
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Result : 2 600EUR
Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON. L.A.S., [end... - Lot 42 - Daguerre
Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON. L.A.S., [end of January 1819?], to Madame de REISET; 3 pages in-8, address. Interesting letter about Colette de Reiset's portrait, and the price he asks for her paintings. He asks "a million pardons" for having delayed to answer..." Since you have decided on a full-length portrait, that will be the one we will take care of. [...] I have never tried to take advantage of what in talents superior to mine could still be called a vain glory to attach to my works an exorbitant price as flattering for vanity as useful for fortune. I leave it to those who are sumptuously furnished and who have the means to make themselves pay largely this brilliant and unofficial accessory of their merit ". As for him, his way of life is modest, and only his work will fix his price, and the time he will give to it, as usual: "it is according to this calculation that I have fixed for a long time the fees of the portraits I made, namely the simple busts at 1200 f., the portraits up to the knees [...] at 3000 f. and the full-length portraits such as the one you want at 6000 f.". However, he sometimes made exceptions, as for the portrait of Mlle de Monte-Hermoso which he did for 2400 f. Thus, wishing to be pleasant to him and "to extend with you relations which are already if I dare to say it became necessary to maintain I will thus frankly propose to you to agree to the fixing of a 4000 f honorarium for your portrait in full length composed as we agreed on it"... He specifies that all this must remain confidential, between them...
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