Antoine BOURDELLE – Autograph letter signed and original drawing.

Antoine BOURDELLE (1861.1929)

Autograph letter signed to Marguerite Rome.

Two quarto pages illustrated with a portrait of a reclining woman.

Traces of Japanese paper around the edges.

Montceau-les-Mines. August 1921.

Charming and paternal letter from the sculptor to the daughter of the Rome couple, poetically telling her the adventures of his trip to Haute-Savoie.

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Miss Marguerite, Ever since you, with the spontaneous confidence of your age, let your little head fall asleep in my two hands resting on your knees, we have planned to tell you about your trip since your departure from Grenoble. We met other little daisies on the roads in the fields, near the snow on the high plateaus, at the foot of Mont Blanc, but it is our first little Marguerite for whom we retain the best friendship. […]

We climbed the Galibier, not without danger, the car rumbling like a watermill wheel. And then from there on the road to Chamonix, on the roads hanging over the abysses, the flowers, the rock, and a blazing sun, and from time to time, with my friend Root, while evoking all the friends Farcy, Flandrin and the Rome family and your big sister, we thought again of our so natural and so spontaneous Marguerite….