Lot n° 105
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GIRODET-TRIOSON Anne-Louis (1767-1824). - Lot 105
GIRODET-TRIOSON Anne-Louis (1767-1824).
8 L.A.S. "Girodet" or "Girodet-Trioson" (one unsigned), Paris [1795 ?]-1814, to Doctor Benoît-François TRIOSON, at his land of Bourgoin near Montargis; 22 pages in-8, mostly with address (heavy spotting and foxing to the last).
Interesting correspondence to his friend, then adoptive father, notably on the upheavals after the fall of the Empire. [Late July 1795?] His requests for a workshop and the repairs to be done in his house take a lot of time, but "the change in the ministry of the interior makes me hope that I will succeed. [...] As for the matters of interest that concern me personally, I only needed to swallow this chalice on top of the one of seeing my state lost without resources. I am only astonished that you propose this occupation as a distraction"... However "artists are made to pay dearly in many ways for the honour of living in the Louvre"... He will send him his varnished painting on the 13th thermidor... August 8th [1808]. Vivant DENON predicts him a complete success. "However I do not have yet the precise idea of what will be my painting, there is still too much to do for one month of work which remains to me. I have been much slower than I would have liked because I had to go in search of a thousand details of costumes, of which I was finally able to obtain several, and which put enough truth in my painting. The group of the generals is almost finished and makes a rather happy effect"... April 12, 1810. On the affairs of his "father" and friend: his location in Paris, acquaintances or friends, a debt to M. Desaugiers. "I have sketched the portrait of Made Rilliet who is doing quite well"... February 16, 1814. "Here [...] everything is in motion and in the worried expectation of the greatest events. One expects to see the enemies tomorrow or Sunday. [...] Everyone is hiding his most precious effects or sending them outside as secretly as possible. I am busy at the moment packing up all the portraits of the Emperor that I have at home. I do not know what I will do with them, the Minister of Justice having told me that there was no room at his hotel, I have already spent three nights packing my studies. Mr. Denon is no busier than I am at the Museum, which is moving fast. I cannot get a penny from the Minister of the Treasury"... March 30th. The enemy is in the forest of Bondy and at Pantin; he hears the cannonades from this skate and the National Guard is on all sides. "Almost all the shops are closed, and there are hardly any that are edible, from which one sees only troops and artillery passing by; the boulevards are full of groups of people who are wondering and making their conjectures. Here we are at the moment of a great catastrophe"... July 13th. He is going to deal with Trioson's letter to Monsieur; M. de Malateste has recommended that he entrust his petition to His Royal Highness to the Count d'Escars, Captain of Monsieur's Guards... "I have received notice from the Minister of the Interior that I am to be paid my housing allowance as usual. [...] This makes me hope that my great claim on the government will not be completely lost. At this moment I cannot yet claim. I will also go see Mr. de St. Vincent. My competitor is well anchored and well protected"... He is going to try to make paintings that will please "our neighbors the islanders", from whom he receives visits... August 4th. He went to Saint-Cloud, where he put his father's petition into the hands of Monsieur. "I was going to make at least one sentence, but the prince walked quickly and found himself on the spot beset with other importunities." He asked for an audience with the Duke de Mailly, "premier Gentilhomme de la Chambre de Monsieur."... 17 November. He suffers from "an eye ache so strong that it is only through a cloud that I write to you. But it does not prevent me from directing my pupils who are working in front of me and for the paintings in Compiègne. [...] It is a happiness for me in the midst of my distress that this enterprise that I will carry out well and which must hold me for more than eighteen months"...
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