ALS in French, signed "Eug. Delacroix," one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, November 10, 1858. Addressed from Champrosay, an interesting handwritten letter to a close friend of Gustave Rouland, the minister of Public Instruction, concerning the promotion of a young painter in his entourage. He acknowledges receipt of a letter announcing the attribution of an indemnity granted at his request to the painter Vincent Joseph Ginovez, by the Minister of Public Instruction, and he asks that his thanks be transmitted to the minister, "finding myself in my inability to offer them to him myself at this moment." Delacroix concludes by thanking the recipient, "for the part that you have been willing to take in this benefit." In fine condition. The painter was then staying in his villa of Champrosay in Draveil (Essonne), near the forest of Sénart. Vincent Joseph Ginovez was a painter from the Gers, like Gustave de Lassalle-Bordes, who for many years was Delacroix's main collaborator in Paris.
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