Claude MONET - Signed autograph letter
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Claude MONET (1840 - 1926), French painter
Autograph letter signed to Doctor Georges de Bellio. Vetheuil, November 5, 1879; 2 pages ½ in-8° on mourning paper. Frayed borders in places, separate leaves.
Monet, in complete destitution, asks his friend, Doctor Bellio, for a little patience to repay his debts. His wife Camille succumbed to illness on September 5 and his former patron, Ernest Hoschedé, went bankrupt and now lives on his own: “I absolutely must write to you and you must be very surprised by my silence, in truth I deserves all your reproaches because before my departure I should have brought you in my hands the 50 [francs] that I had offered you and that I could give you when we dined together, but I had to leave suddenly and having to receive a little money in Vétheuil I thought I could send you the hundred francs. But to my misfortune I found the house and Hoschedé without a penny so that the little I had had to go there. In addition, the money on which I was counting has not yet arrived but as I am afraid that you will be angry at my silence and that you will misinterpret it, I am writing to you with some explanations assuring you that as soon as the money that I am waiting for arrives I will send you the cents. I found the countryside still very beautiful with its autumn colors and I work like a ghost. I plan to come to Paris at the end of the month with some good, well-finished paintings. Accept again all my apologies and believe me your most devoted..."
Claude Monet married Camille Doncieux on June 28, 1870, they had two children Jean-Pierre and Michel. At this time the painter lived in great financial precariousness, the merchant Paul Durand-Ruel was his main source of income, his friend, Doctor Georges de Bellio also helped him. Camille suffered from cancer since 1877, she died on September 5, 1879, just a few months after her religious marriage.
Ernest Hoschedé, textile merchant, met Claude Monet in 1876. He was a major patron of the Impressionists. But his reversals of fortune forced him to part with numerous paintings. During the summer of 1878, he moved with his family to settle in a house in Vétheuil with the Monet couple. Alice, Ernest Hoschedé's wife, watches over Camille Monet, who was suffering from cancer since 1877. Ernest Hoschedé's extended trips to Paris helped Monet and Alice become closer.
Doctor Georges de Bellio (1828-1894), a wealthy friend of the Impressionists, was one of the first major collectors of their works. Monet is his favorite painter, he buys, among other things, the famous painting “Impression of the Rising Sun”.
Autograph letter signed to Doctor Georges de Bellio. Vetheuil, November 5, 1879; 2 pages ½ in-8° on mourning paper. Frayed borders in places, separate leaves.
Monet, in complete destitution, asks his friend, Doctor Bellio, for a little patience to repay his debts. His wife Camille succumbed to illness on September 5 and his former patron, Ernest Hoschedé, went bankrupt and now lives on his own: “I absolutely must write to you and you must be very surprised by my silence, in truth I deserves all your reproaches because before my departure I should have brought you in my hands the 50 [francs] that I had offered you and that I could give you when we dined together, but I had to leave suddenly and having to receive a little money in Vétheuil I thought I could send you the hundred francs. But to my misfortune I found the house and Hoschedé without a penny so that the little I had had to go there. In addition, the money on which I was counting has not yet arrived but as I am afraid that you will be angry at my silence and that you will misinterpret it, I am writing to you with some explanations assuring you that as soon as the money that I am waiting for arrives I will send you the cents. I found the countryside still very beautiful with its autumn colors and I work like a ghost. I plan to come to Paris at the end of the month with some good, well-finished paintings. Accept again all my apologies and believe me your most devoted..."
Claude Monet married Camille Doncieux on June 28, 1870, they had two children Jean-Pierre and Michel. At this time the painter lived in great financial precariousness, the merchant Paul Durand-Ruel was his main source of income, his friend, Doctor Georges de Bellio also helped him. Camille suffered from cancer since 1877, she died on September 5, 1879, just a few months after her religious marriage.
Ernest Hoschedé, textile merchant, met Claude Monet in 1876. He was a major patron of the Impressionists. But his reversals of fortune forced him to part with numerous paintings. During the summer of 1878, he moved with his family to settle in a house in Vétheuil with the Monet couple. Alice, Ernest Hoschedé's wife, watches over Camille Monet, who was suffering from cancer since 1877. Ernest Hoschedé's extended trips to Paris helped Monet and Alice become closer.
Doctor Georges de Bellio (1828-1894), a wealthy friend of the Impressionists, was one of the first major collectors of their works. Monet is his favorite painter, he buys, among other things, the famous painting “Impression of the Rising Sun”.
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