CHAMPFLEURY (Jules Husson dit, Laon 1821-1889,... Lot 14

CHAMPFLEURY (Jules Husson dit, Laon 1821-1889, novelist and critic, founder of the literary realist movement, friend of Baudelaire, administrator of the Manufacture de porcelaine de Sèvres: Autograph letter signed, 1 p in-8 plus address page with postage, 10 November 1860, to painter Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914); He wants to see him as soon as possible for an etching to be done for the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts", after a religious painting by Le Nain, "in spite of your anger against this master, you will do it for me", "Houssaye is in a hurry and so am I" (Champfleury devoted several works to the Le Nain brothers, who came from the Pays de Laon like him and also the Houssaye, Arsène and Edouard, director of the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts")