[GOUNOD Charles]. HÉBERT Ernest (1817-1908).

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[GOUNOD Charles]. HÉBERT Ernest (1817-1908).
9 LA.S. "Hébert" or "H." to Charles GOUNOD, Rome and La Tronche [ca. 1870-1875?]; 26 pages, mostly in-12. Beautiful friendly correspondence from the painter to the musician. [It was in Rome, at the Villa Medici, that Gounod and Hébert met, their friendship lasted until the death of Gounod. At the time of this correspondence, Hébert was director of the Villa Medici]. In his very affectionate letters from Rome, Hébert gives news of his work, of his plans for a trip to Italy and Sicily, of the boarders of the Villa Medici (including Regnault), of their friend the sculptor Marcello ("our Michel") and of his Sybille; he asks about Gounod's work, in particular around Polyeucte: "I am told that you have already done several admirable things for your Polyeucte, courage, my little darling, great musician. He had " arranged your Turkish room as if you were going to arrive [...] Who would not feel stronger for the trials of life in the presence of the great aspect of the silent and solemn nature of the Roman countryside! "; he likes to watch the sunset from the top of a hill: "How one loves one's distant friends then, and how one would like to have them near one, without speaking, hand in hand! The grandiose country has lost nothing since our youth, you will find it as eloquent as when we were twenty years old"... Hébert also talks about his work: "The painting of the Vittoria is coming to an end, not without difficulty; it has become philosophical, it is the pride of life and sad old age in the presence of the present and the past. If you were here, you would help me find a title. I made a guitar player after Pascuccia with which I wanted to represent the Italian popular music that I love so much, this loving and sad minor! [...] I am doing the portrait of the Vittgenstein Psse [...] and I am trying to do a simpatico portrait". La Tronche April 12, 1875, about Polyeucte: " I am very happy with this reconstruction that you have just finished and I hope that soon we will be able to admire it in its splendour at the opera "... He is waiting for him at La Tronche: " Come and rest from your work so admirably finished as they say that one cannot hear it without being disturbed without the sacred shiver taking you "... Enclosed: - 2 L.A.S to Anna Gounod, (n.d. and 27 May 1893); - and 15 L.A.S to Jean Gounod, giving him advice for his artistic activities: "One must seek style, nobility, beauty, and disdain the vulgar"; - a L.A.S. (Rome 2 June), to an "old brave", congratulating him for his medal, while he takes up "the great Virgin that I find far from what it should be; what mediocrity!" and that he wants to work on "the girl in the greenery"...; - his engraved portrait dedicated to Jeanne Gounod (plus a photograph)
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