RENOIR PIERRE-AUGUSTE: (1841-1919) French painter. A.L.S., Renoir, one page, 8vo, n.p. ...

RENOIR PIERRE-AUGUSTE: (1841-1919) French painter. A.L.S., Renoir, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to [Claude] Monet (‘Mon cher Monet’), in French. Renoir explains that he didn’t meet Mr. Chocquet, who was preoccupied with family matters and had to leave suddenly to return to his country, and continues, in part, ‘Il a pense que tres probablement tu aurais besoin de tes toiles de ta boite etc. Je l'ai tranquillise en le priant de me les envoyer chez moi. Il a ete enchante de la propisition.......Il est donc probable que lorsque tu recevras cette lettre tes bibelots seront chez moi.......En tous cas tu n'ay pas a te presser; tu ne me genes en rien’ (Translation: ‘He thought that most likely you would need your canvasses from your box etc. I reassured him by asking him to send them to my house. He was delighted with the proposal…..It is therefore probable that when you receive this letter your trinkets will be with me…….In any case you don’t have to hurry; you don’t bother me at all’). With two old tape stains to the left, one affecting several words of text (which remain legible), otherwise about G

Claude Monet (1840-1926) French Impressionist painter.

Victor Chocquet (1821-1891) French government official and art collector, a friend of Renoir whom Chocquet commissioned to paint his portrait. In 1899 when Chocquet’s significant collection was sold at auction it included thirty-two works by Cezanne, eleven by Renoir, eleven by Monet and one each by Pissarro and Sisley. Other artists represented in the collection included Corot, Courbet and Delacroix.