Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON. L.A.S., 1819 ?, to... Lot 48

Anne-Louis GIRODET-TRIOSON. L.A.S., [1819 ?], to Madame de REISET; 2 pages in-8, address. He is very ill, and for several days has been sleeping a bad sleep. As soon as he is better he will have to attend to his urgent business: "it will bore me in another direction I would like to throw my little fortune out of the window so as not to be embarrassed by it any longer, but one must not become quite mad in a world where wise men are obviously in great numbers"... He could not send him the drawing teacher who was his pupil: "he is very busy decorating the house of a general who is very impatient to live in it [...] besides he did not paint the miniature but he drew very well". He has no other master at his disposal. As for ISABEY : " I do not think that Isabey agrees to give a lesson. I would be very proud if he had been my pupil but we are the same age [...]. What I can boast of is having been his classmate. But he may be able to point you to one of his pupils [...] and if you would take the trouble to ask him, Isabey is more polite than I am and I have no doubt that he will answer you at once. His school is the first in the genre of miniature painting in Europe"...