Jean-Louis LE BARBIER, known as Le Barbier jeune (Rouen 1743 - ap. 1789), painter, pupil of Descamps and Lebas, younger brother of the painter Jean-Jacques Le Barbier.
Autograph letter signed "Le Barbier Le Jeune" to "Monsieur Guis Le Père" [Pierre-Augustin Guys (Marseille 1721-1799), "secrétaire du Roy à Marseille", traveler and writer, perpetual secretary of the Académie de Marseille]. 3 pp. in-4. Rome, July 24, 1789. Address on back.
Beautiful letter from Rome, July 1789. He praises Guys and his work [Voyage littéraire de la Grèce]. "I cannot do without it. By rereading you often, sir, I gain in every way for the instruction and pleasure of the heart [...]. If my elder brother, who lives in Paris, had been able to guess your stay in this beautiful capital, he would surely have had the honor of seeing you [...]. When I left Paris, he asked me to tell you a thousand honest things on his behalf [...]. You will find in the person of Mr le Comte de Choiseul, ambassador to Constantinople, a man of the greatest merit and quite different from most of his peers. His love for the arts and letters, where he has already distinguished himself with happy successes, has won him the admiration of everyone. I once had the honor of knowing her a little, being her neighbor in Paris. I regret not having cultivated it enough. I beg you to remember me by paying my respects. And to tell him that I am in Rome, and how much I would like to greet him in Constantinople [...]. His son is making a great journey at a very young age. This new Telemachus is very happy to have such a good mentor with whom he will travel the seas where the old one had so many adventures. O que ne suis-je avec vous, Monsieur, dans ces belles contrées, comme j'y ferois des dessins intéressants de tout ce qui reste de monumens échappés à la barbarie de ces Barbares oppresseurs. But one must groan and deprive oneself. That's what most men spend their lives doing [...]. I am awaited in Provence, where they would like to keep me for a year, ten if I wish, and all my life. I love this beautiful province and its divine climate. Perhaps one day I will deposit my ashes there [...]".
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