DELACROIX Eugène Charenton-Saint-Maurice, 1798... Lot n° 308

Set of 3 autograph letters signed to Eugène Pelletan. 4 pages 1/2 in-8°. - 11 8bre: "I'll send you a ticket to drive as many people as you want. If you can get some sun in the morning you choose you will see much better [...] You can see at the same time the paintings I did in the old king's salon"... - April 15: "You point out very well in the midst of all the flattering things that you tell me that the only thing that is wanted in painting is the drawing of the sculptors, and that this error on which the whole school of David lived is still all-powerful. It will no doubt live long enough to feed the critics who make my paintings problems and enigmas for most of the public. I must therefore be doubly grateful for the warmth you show me, which will contribute to a rendering that is a little less indecipherable for the majority of the public"... - Chamrosay, 28 May: "I am just convalescing from an illness that has kept me away for five months from all business and work: I could not be part of the jury and I took refuge in the countryside to avoid any opportunity to speak: because it is the larynx that suffers at home"...