PEINTRES ET HOMMES DE LETTRES Exceptional set of 55 letters of painters and men of letters, including CARPEAUX, BOURDELLE, VLAMINCK, PISSARRO, VAN DONGEN, BONNARD 1866-1923 Beautiful set of letters, cards and autograph and signed notes gathering the greatest names of painters of this time: - Paul-Albert Besnard (2 letters, one addressed to Roll, March 25, 1899, the other in 1912); - Jacques-Emile Blanche (letter addressed to Vincent d'Indy, Dieppe, June 15, 1890, 4 pages in-12); - Pierre Bonnard (note to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1914); - Léon Bonnat (2 letters dated 1890 and 1895); - Antoine Bourdelle (note and notes, 30 December 1920); - Félix Bracquemond (3 letters and an autograph note, dated 1893 to 1901); - Jules Breton (13 notes and letters, dated 1866 to 1886, in-8 and in-12); - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (letter dated Paris, January 14, 1870); - Jean-Louis Forain (map and letter, 1882, 1914, one mentioning Proust); - Charles Garnier (a letter dated August 5, 1868); - Jean-Baptiste Guth (2 letters, one dated January 14, 1893); - Jacques Hittorff (3 letters, one signed only, dated 1858 to 1864); - Jean-Baptiste Isabey (3 letters to Alphonse Ménechet, s.d.); - Marie Laurencin (note dated Paris 1914 to Mr. Tzanck); - Claude Monet (one letter, 1 page and a half in-8, n.d.); - Henri Le Sidaner (one letter, undated); - G. Marquet (letter of May 14, 1893); - Gustave Moreau (3 undated notes); - Camille Pissarro (a letter to Elisée Reclus, undated, from the Hôtel du Grand Miroir); - Auguste Préault (3 letters, two of them addressed to ? the Duret family and one to Auguste Cot, a short letter dated 1899 and an undated note); - Puvis de Chavannes (8 letters and notes dated 1884 ? 1896, in various formats, addressed to Laurens, Bouguereau, Baudoin, Vachon); - Félicien Rops (letter dated 1 October 1885); - Kees Van Dongen (letter dated 12 November 1923 to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1 page in-