Documents associated with: 105th exhibition, Ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, Palais des Champs Elysées, Paris, 1890
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System Number: 00814
Date: 9 March [1885/1890][1]
Author: Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas[2]
Place: Paris
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler D20
Document Type: ALS[3]
Paris
9 mars
Mon cher Whistler
Je vous présente et vous recommande mon ami Mr Groult[4], grand amateur, grand collectionneur, fou de l'école anglaise. Il doit être un de vos grands admirateurs puisqu'il me demande, au dernier moment, ce petit mot d'introduction.
[p. 2] J'espère avoir le plaisir de vous voir, à l'époque du Salon[5].
Amitiés
Degas
Paris 9 mars
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Translation:
Paris
My dear Whistler
Allow me to introduce and recommend to you my friend Mr Groult, a great art lover and collector, mad about the English school. He must be one of your greatest admirers since he has at this moment asked me for this note of introduction.
[p. 2] I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you, during the Salon.
Yours truly,
Degas
Paris 9th March
Notes:
1. 9 March [1885/1890]
Year date estimated from the period of acquaintance between the two artists. The reference to Groult possibly implies a date towards the end of this period.
2. Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (1834-1917), artist [more]
3. ALS
This letter was published in MacDonald, Margaret F. and Joy Newton, 'Letters from the Whistler Collection (University of Glasgow). Correspondance with French Painters,' Gazette des Beaux Arts, no. 128, December 1986, pp. 201-214, at p. 205.
4. Mr Groult
Camille Groult (1837-1907), industrialist and collector [more].
5. Salon
The Salon mentioned might have been the 103rd exhibition, Ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, Palais des Champs Elysées, Paris, 1885, or in the following year, 1886, or in 1890, at all of which JW exhibited. After 1890 he abandoned the official Salon, exhibiting at the 1st Exhibition, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1891, et seq.