UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

System Number: 05808
Date: 16 June 1894
Author: David Croal Thomson^[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler T153
Document Type: ALS^[2]

'Re. difficulty of photographing Cte de Montesquiou's portrait by Paris branch^[3].'

THE GOUPIL GALLERY
[royal coat of arms]
BOUSSOD VALADON & CO.
5, REGENT STREET, S. W. TELEGRAMS, BOUSSOD, LONDON.

London

16 June 1894

Dear Mr Whistler,

Our people write from Paris "Nous n'avions^[4] pas perdu de vue les demande pour M. Whistler, mais nous avons vainement essaye à plusieurs reprises de faire en Champ de Mars^[5] (ou nous ne pouvons travailler que de 8h à 9h am) [des cliches?] de ce tableau extraordinairement sombre, & il a plu tous les jours.

[p. 2] Nous en avons fait un autre aujourd'hui par une matinee du soleil et pensons qu'il sera mieux réussie."

As soon as the proofs come you will receive them, but you will see that we have been trying.

They send two proofs of cliches made but they are too dark to show you & we await the new ones taken yesterday.

We have a fine show of Troyon paintings 28 in all of which 7 or 8 are chef d'oeuvres

Yours vy truly

D. C. Thomson

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Notes:

1.  David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more].

2.  ALS
The paper has a mourning border.

3.  Re. difficulty of photographing Cte de Montesquiou's portrait by Paris branch
This is added in pencil, in another (later) hand.

4.  Nous n'avions ... réussie
Fr., We have not forgotten Mr Whistler's requests, but we have tried in vain several times to take photographs of this extraordinarily dark painting, at the Champs de Mars, where we can only work between 8-9 a.m. We have done another today on a sunny morning and think this will be better.

5.  Champ de Mars
Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (YMSM 398) was at the 4th Exhibition, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1894.