Documents associated with: 2nd [Exhibition], Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1892
Record 4 of 41
System Number: 05697
Date: 5 March 1892
Author: David Croal Thomson[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler T42
Document Type: ALS
[royal coat of arms]
THE GOUPIL GALLERY
BOUSSOD, VALADON & CO.
116 & 117, NEW BOND STREET. W.
TELEGRAMS, - BOUSSOD, LONDON.
London
5 March 1892.
Dear Sir,
Rawlinson[2]. As the picture[3] is on its way & has been sent in a case which was going at any rate will you kindly look at it & tell us what you think. Its condition as at present is a little to the detriment of your pictures in general for people might think they will all go this way.
[p. 2] The Fur Jacket[4]. Many thanks for having it sent.
Lady Meux[5]. Do you require the glass kept on this for the New Salon? It will make the carriage to Paris very costly
Honble Mrs Wyndham[6]. We are informing Richards[7]
Catalogue. The quotation is charming! We shall prepare the list in print as you require with plenty margins.
Posters. We send you the first pull of Ways[8] idea. Kindly say as soon as possible how you like it.
Modern Painters[9]. Vol. I is being sent [p. 3] to you to-day. The others will follow. Enclosed are notes of some apt quotations the idea being to show that Ruskin[10] & Whistler really started with the same ideas that Whistler kept faithful to them & Ruskin went in for Pre-Raphaelitism[,] Mr Frith[11] & all that superficial stuff.
Please keep these volumes for me as they were a personal present
Yours faithfully
pp [stamped:] BOUSSOD VALADON & CO.
D C Thomson
MANAGER.
Monsieur Whistler
[p. 4] Possible Paragraphs for pictures from 'Modern Painters'
page XVI[12] - for Note at front of catalogue
or
p. 419 — do —
or
XXI — do
The following could be made to fit certain pictures.
p 12 —
p. 36 - 37 - (4) 337,
76, 84 (2)
189 - (2)
329 - for a Marine
& so on
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Notes:
1. David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more]. He was organising Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces, Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892.
2. Rawlinson
William George Rawlinson (1840-1928), silk merchant, collector [more].
3. picture
Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Battersea Reach (YMSM 119).
4. The Fur Jacket
Arrangement in Black and Brown: The Fur Jacket (YMSM 181).
5. Lady Meux
Harmony in Pink and Grey: Portrait of Lady Meux (YMSM 229), at 2nd Exhibition, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1892.
6. Honble Mrs Wyndham
Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Wyndham (1835-1920), née Campbell, artist [more].
7. Richards
Stephen Richards (b. ca 1845), picture restorer [more].
8. Ways
Thomas Way (1837-1915), lithographic printer [more].
9. Modern Painters
Ruskin, John, Modern Painters, London, 1843-60.
10. Ruskin
John Ruskin (1819-1900), critic, social reformer and artist [more].
11. Mr Frith
William Powell Frith (1819-1909), genre and landscape painter [more].
12. page XVI
These are notes for the exhibition catalogue.