Delacroix Eugène

"je pourrais me croire en danger de me voir un de ces jours changé en arbre"" Autograph letter signed to Baron Félix Feuillet de Conches

1850ref. 86760Champrosay 1850. Fine. I am madly in love with these innocent and beautiful trees while human nature on the other hand falls every day in my esteem. Champrosay s. d. 1840-1860 13.50 x 20.10 cm une page sur un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by the painter Eugène Delacroix to his friend Baron Félix Feuillet de Conches master of protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Charles X and Louis-Philippe. One page in black ink on a folded sheet with the autograph address on the verso. Traces of seal and postal stamps dated October 7. The painter writes to his friend Feuillet de Conches a distinguished man of letters whose works were well received and who also amassed an elegant collection of art and autographs in his apartment on the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins the address of this very letter. A charming and witty missive in which Delacroix expresses his enchantment with country life far removed from the bustle of Paris. ""From the summer of 1844 Eugène Delacroix settled at Champrosay on the edge of the Sénart forest near Paris. There he recorded in his journal the impressions inspired by his regular walks through the countryside. He produced numerous sketches later reworked into his large compositions as well as more ambitious landscapes that reveal how in his mature and later years the observation of nature now contemplated for its own sake had become central to his art."" MuMa ""I reply to you late dear Feuillet but you will forgive me: I promise you a Gros very happy to add it to the collection. I pity you for living far from the fields. If we were still in the time of Ovids Metamorphoses I might believe myself in danger of one day being turned into a tree. I am mad about these innocent and beautiful trees while human nature on the other hand loses each day in my esteem. I except of course friends like you and the few who retain a little reason.I embrace you while awaiting this winterEug. Delacroix."" unknown

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