Claude MONET - Signed autograph letter concerning the cathedrals of Rouen
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Claude MONET
Signed autograph letter concerning the cathedrals of Rouen
Autograph signed letter to his wife, Alice Monet (Hoschedé). (Rouen 20 February 1893), Monday evening 9h; 4 pages in-8th.
While Monet returns to Rouen to complete his paintings of the cathedral begun the previous year, he worries about the tranquility necessary to his work: "My darling, I come back to sleep and find
your letter. Certainly I would be delighted to see you and to please my brother (Leon Monet) but frankly I'm just starting to organize myself and get well at work and my faith, I find that the first
thing is to think about work, I had too many disappointments last year. I am counting on, as I said, you coming once to Rouen with the girl, and Blanche (the daughter of Alice) and that it will be
when I will be a little advanced in my work and also when there will be a little more vegetation to see the Jardin des Plantes. I will write immediately to my brother. He is very nice, there is less
embarassment with his own peers than with strangers, he should understand however, that I need to be quiet. I kiss you as I love you, Claude Monet. Your arrival, anyway, would divert me at the
moment, since I absolutely need all my will and all my strength to get out of this great difficulty; or so I have to be here on a walk and come back in eight days. These strains already exasperate
me.
P.S. I do not understand the silence of Jean (the son of Claude Monet), except that he thought about avoiding any disturbance to me, which excuses him, besides I feel that if it is renewed I will
give up all work here. I am sure I will not go to sleep (...) ".
As early as mid-February 1893, Monet stayed at the Hotel d'Angleterre to complete his series of paintings at Rouen Cathedral begun a year earlier and to work on new ones. A perfectionist, he is
eternally dissatisfied. During his two-month stay from February 16th to April 11th, he often shared the table of his brother Léon, who runs a small chemical business in which Jean, Claude Monet's
son, was hired.
Signed autograph letter concerning the cathedrals of Rouen
Autograph signed letter to his wife, Alice Monet (Hoschedé). (Rouen 20 February 1893), Monday evening 9h; 4 pages in-8th.
While Monet returns to Rouen to complete his paintings of the cathedral begun the previous year, he worries about the tranquility necessary to his work: "My darling, I come back to sleep and find
your letter. Certainly I would be delighted to see you and to please my brother (Leon Monet) but frankly I'm just starting to organize myself and get well at work and my faith, I find that the first
thing is to think about work, I had too many disappointments last year. I am counting on, as I said, you coming once to Rouen with the girl, and Blanche (the daughter of Alice) and that it will be
when I will be a little advanced in my work and also when there will be a little more vegetation to see the Jardin des Plantes. I will write immediately to my brother. He is very nice, there is less
embarassment with his own peers than with strangers, he should understand however, that I need to be quiet. I kiss you as I love you, Claude Monet. Your arrival, anyway, would divert me at the
moment, since I absolutely need all my will and all my strength to get out of this great difficulty; or so I have to be here on a walk and come back in eight days. These strains already exasperate
me.
P.S. I do not understand the silence of Jean (the son of Claude Monet), except that he thought about avoiding any disturbance to me, which excuses him, besides I feel that if it is renewed I will
give up all work here. I am sure I will not go to sleep (...) ".
As early as mid-February 1893, Monet stayed at the Hotel d'Angleterre to complete his series of paintings at Rouen Cathedral begun a year earlier and to work on new ones. A perfectionist, he is
eternally dissatisfied. During his two-month stay from February 16th to April 11th, he often shared the table of his brother Léon, who runs a small chemical business in which Jean, Claude Monet's
son, was hired.
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