Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON (1767-1824) painter.... Lot 46

Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON (1767-1824) painter. L.A.S., [mid-November 1819?], to Madame de REISET; 2 pages small in-8, address. He too has been very ill since they parted: "the emotion I have experienced has been felt all day"; he is sincerely pleased that she is better, "but I, Madame, am in the greatest need of rest. Shaking does not suit people as delicate and as sick as I am, and I beg you to have pity on me. When one feels as strongly as you do, Madam, one succeeds in all the arts, and I think that you would not even need the help of any Raphael. However, if it were serious that you wanted to learn painting and that you could sacrifice absolutely all your moments to it and that you remained in Paris without interruptions, I would do what depended on me to be pleasant to you. He apologizes for not being able to accept her kind offer to accompany him "in front of my painting [Pygmalion and Galatea, exhibited at the Salon]. I have neither the moral nor the physical strength to do so, and I believe I have told you the reasons for this. I will not see this painting again except at Mr de Sommariva's, certainly"...