Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON. L.A.S., May-June 1819?,... Lot 44

Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON. L.A.S., [May-June 1819?], to Étienne de REISET; 2 pages small in-8, address. For more than six months he has devoted himself to a single work: "to finish the painting of which you have seen the sketch. But I am not yet ready to finish it, and I have resolved not to interrupt it because I absolutely want to finish it. The time when it will be finished is therefore uncertain. He will then have to go to the country for his business and his health: "All this will prevent me for a few more months from taking care of the portrait of Made de Reizet", to his greatest regret, but nothing will divert him from it once he will be able to work on it: "I will be able to advance it considerably without Made de Reizet being obliged to pay for it personally. The bust study that I have made of her will exempt her from too many sessions that would do nothing to improve the likeness. [...] When the painting is advanced to put the final touches, I will have the honor to give you notice. He will only need a few sessions...