BAYONNE - FINE ARTS - FEILLET family, Painters - Pierre FEIL - Lot 241

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BAYONNE - FINE ARTS - FEILLET family, Painters - Pierre FEIL - Lot 241
BAYONNE - FINE ARTS - FEILLET family, Painters - Pierre FEILLET (1794-1855), Hélène FEILLET (1812-1889), Blanche FEILLET (1815-1886) / Letter written and signed by Hélène Feillet, with the following correspondence written and signed by her father Pierre Feillet and her sister Blanche Feillet, 4 p small in-4, Bayonne, December 27, 1842, to a friend of the family, Captain Albert Desbordelières in Perpignan: Friendly missive from the Feillet family, giving news and wishing them a happy new year - Hélène Feillet makes an important announcement: "I have received the official letter that gives me to do the painting of the hospital - The canvas is already sewn, I will only have to paint - For example, it is not the easiest to do, but never work will have interested me more, I will not spare myself, at least if I leave even for the other world, I will not spare myself, at least if I leave even for the other world, I will leave a memory to Bayonne and to my friends, but never go to the military hospital except as a friend, I beg you - The subject is Saint-Louis relieving the wounded of a battlefield" [It is for the Chapel of the Military Hospital of Bayonne that Hélène Feillet received this order for a monumental painting which will be entitled: "Saint-Louis walking through a battlefield and giving aid to the wounded"] - Pierre Feillet reminded his friend: "As you should take advantage of your perpetual spring, in your races, collect all that you find in shells and minerals, I always collect".
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