DETAILLE Édouard [Paris, 1848 - id., 1912], French military - Lot 205

DETAILLE Édouard [Paris, 1848 - id., 1912], French military painter. Set of 6 autograph letters signed. He talks about his painting and commissions: "I don't do small paintings anymore and besides, I never under any circumstances take orders. The simplest way would be to ask the Goupil house to inform you Goupil to warn you in case something of mine passes through their hands; of an answer to an invitation; of a poster of Fanfan la tulipe "the poster was executed by the Imperial printing house it is the only one I have ever done. Fanfan the tulip is a rather clumsy copy of a watercolor of a watercolor executed by me"; of a lithograph of Gustave Doré, The death of Gerard Nerval that he wants to recover; of a great work that he prepares in the country to participate in the Salon; a letter of thanks for a laudatory article that appeared in the Figaro. A visiting card with some autographed lines is attached.