Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON. L.A.S., [March... - Lot 43 - Daguerre

Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON. L.A.S., [March 1819?], to Madame de REISET; 2 pages in-8. He regrets having missed his visit, but he is rarely at home at this time "when the competitions of the young students of the academy force me to go there as a teacher, and when I work at home I am well hidden there and so rigorously enclosed that I am even less there than when I am out. The more you show me the desire so flattering for me, Madam, to have your portrait promptly, the more I am truly distressed" not to be able to promise it, because he does not cease to work without interruption on his "history painting" [Pygmalion and Galatea], and that until August for the Exhibition. He thought he would only have three months of work, but "the works that the imagination directs almost alone cannot be circumscribed as to the degree of difficulty and the space of time that they require. The one that occupies me, Madam, occupies me so much that there is no power capable of diverting me from it than that which would deprive me of my faculties of action and understanding. I am completely subjugated by the idea of finishing it [...]. If you only knew the things I have promised myself that I will never be able to carry out and with how many projects in my head I will die!"...