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Finding aid for the Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and documents by painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers, 1691-1825, undated

Sarah Mackenzie Wade

Finding aid for the Cornelius Ver 2017.M.62 1 Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and docume... Descriptive Summary Title: Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and documents by painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers Date (inclusive): 1691-1825, undated Number: 2017.M.62 Creator/Collector: Ver Heyden de Lancey, Cornelius, 1889-1984 Physical Description: 4.67 Linear Feet(4 boxes) Repository: The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 [email protected] URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390 Abstract: The Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection comprises manuscript correspondence and documents by over 75 painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers, predominantly from 17th- and 18th-century . Request Materials: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the catalog record for this collection. Click here for the access policy . Language: Collection material is primarily in French with some Danish and German. Modern research materials are in English. Biographical / Historical Dutch-born British baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a medical doctor, dentist, and barrister, as well as an art historian and collector of French historical books, letters, and manuscripts. De Lancey studied medicine and dentistry at the University of Leiden, earned his dental degree in the United States, and practiced dentistry in London and , where he developed his research interests in art history and the arts. In 1970, De Lancey and his wife, Josephine de la Hanty, founded the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, an organization dedicated to the study of medical law that also sponsors arts initiatives in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France. De Lancey died on Jersey in the Channel Islands in 1984. Sources consulted: About the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey: 1889-1984, the website for the De Lancey Foundation, accessed July 23, 2018, http://www.delanceyfoundation.co.uk/#the-person. David Brafman, Acquisition Approval Form for Collection of French letters and documents by painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers, accession no. 2017.M.62, March 10, 2017. Access Open for use by qualified researchers. Publication Rights Contact Library Reproductions and Permissions . Preferred Citation Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and documents by painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers, 1691-1825, undated, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2017.M.62. http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2017m62 Immediate Source of Acquisition Acquired in 2017. Custodial History The repository's Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection was acquired in the 1980s by Adelheid A. Von Hohenlohe, the late wife of Ivan Volkoff. Many items in the collection bear de Lancey's blind stamp, Lugt 2701a. Processing Information Arranged and described in 2018 by Sarah Mackenzie Wade. Scope and Content of Collection

Finding aid for the Cornelius Ver 2017.M.62 2 Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and docume... The collection comprises manuscript correspondence and documents by over 75 painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers, predominantly from 17th- and 18th-century France. Correspondence constitutes the bulk of the collection; additional materials include financial and legal documents such as manuscript receipts, promissory notes, discharges of debt, commission contracts for works of art, lease agreements, a royal brevet, and a partition of estate. The collection also includes signed statements by groups of artists and members of the royal academy. French artists represented in the collection include painters and draftsmen Nicolas de Largillierre and Hubert Robert; painters Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and Jean-Baptiste Regnault; academician Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis; architects Marie-Joseph Peyre, Michel-Barthélemy Hazon, Jean Chalgrin, and Ange-Jacques Gabriel; sculptors Laurent Guiard, Noël Jouvenet V, and Philippe-Laurent Roland; printmakers Noël Hallé, Nicolas Ponce, and Simon Thomassin; and engravers Jean Bernard Restout and Joseph-Marie Vien the elder. The collection also includes materials by Danish engraver Johan Frederik Clemens and German printmaker Johann Gotthard von Müller. The collection is arranged alphabetically, largely in adherence with the organization of Volkoff and Von Hohenlohe, with minor adjustments to accommodate standardized names of artists. Original manuscripts have been maintained alongside collectors' research and acquisition documents, which include annotated typescript descriptive notes for the Ver Heyden de Lancey acquisitions, twenty-first century laser printouts of electronic resource research materials assembled by Von Hohenlohe, and photographs of portraits of the artists. Collector dossier folders that comprise only modern English-language research materials were incorporated into folders containing the relevant French-language manuscripts. Von Hohenlohe's dossier numbers are detailed in descriptive notes at the component level. Arrangement Arranged alphabetically. Subjects - Names Volkoff, Ivan Von Hohenlohe, Adelheid A. Hallé, Noël, 1711-1781 Robert, Hubert, 1733-1808 Largillierre, Nicolas de, 1656-1746 Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842 Peyre, Marie-Joseph, 1730-1785 Regnault, Jean-Baptiste, baron, 1754-1829 Restout, Jean-Bernard, 1732-1797 Vien, Joseph-Marie, 1716-1809 Duplessis, Joseph-Siffrède, 1725-1802 Chalgrin, Jean-François-Thérèse, 1739-1811 Gabriel, Ange-Jacques, 1698-1782 Guiard, Laurent, 1723-1788 Roland, Philippe-Laurent, 1746-1816 Hazon, Michel Barthelemy Jouvenet, Nöel V Müller, Johann Gotthard, 1747-1830 Clemens, Johan Frederik, 1748-1831 Subjects - Topics Art, French -- 17th century Art, French -- 18th century Art, French -- 19th century Artists -- France -- Correspondence Architects -- France -- Correspondence Painters -- France -- Correspondence Printmakers -- France -- Correspondence Sculptors -- France -- Correspondence Genres and Forms of Material

Finding aid for the Cornelius Ver 2017.M.62 3 Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and docume... Letters (correspondence) -- France -- 17th century Letters (correspondence) -- France -- 18th century Letters (correspondence) -- France -- 19th century Manuscripts (documents) -- France -- 17th century Manuscripts (documents) -- France -- 18th century Manuscripts (documents) -- France -- 19th century Chromogenic color prints Gelatin silver prints -- 21st century Photographs, Original Contributors Ver Heyden de Lancey, Cornelius, 1889-1984 Volkoff, Ivan Von Hohenlohe, Adelheid A.

Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and documents by painters, sculptors, architects, and printmakers

Box 1, Folder 1 Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Signed manuscript document, 1792 May 5 Scope and Content Note Minutes of an Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture meeting concerning the widow Brouet's pension and M. Du Rameau's payment for arranging the Salon of 1791. Includes a black-and-white photograph of the document's signatures by academy members Vien, Pajou, Van Loo, Dejoux, Lecomte, Lagrenée, and Caffieri. Dossier no. 1.

Box 4*, Folder 1 Adam, Lambert-Sigisbert, Letter to Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, 1730 November 9 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 2.

Box 1, Folder 2 Areslin, Jean-Paul, Signed manuscript document, 1781 April 17 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 3.

Box 1, Folder 3 Augustin, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques, Letter to Monsieur le Comte, 1825 January 15 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 4.

Box 1, Folder 4 Bélanger, François-Joseph, Letter to Jean-Frédéric Perregaux, 1791 May 31 Scope and Content Note Modern documentary materials include a black-and-white photograph of a portrait [of the artist?] and a color photograph of a Louis XVI style gilt-bronze marble table made after the 1781 model by Bélanger and Chalgrin. Dossier no. 5.

Box 1, Folder 5 Bernard, Charles, Signed manuscript document, 1706 November 5 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 6.

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Box 1, Folder 6 Bordenave de Pan, Letters to and from Charles-Claude, comte d'Angiviller, Versailles, 1778 July 26 Scope and Content Note Concerning the Déclaration du Roi, relative aux arts de peinture & de sculpture. Includes a color photograph of a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze of Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie, comte d'Angiviller. Dossier no. 7.

Box 1, Folder 7 Boulongne, Philippe, Signed partial manuscript receipt for royal funds, 1776 September 14 Scope and Content Note Also signed by Jean-Robert Boulongne and Jacques-Martin Roquet. Dossier no. 8.

Box 1, Folder 8 Boze, Claude Gros de, Signed letter as secretary of the Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 1736 November 21 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 9.

Box 1, Folder 9 Brébion, Maximilien, Letter to Charles-Claude, comte d'Angiviller, with manuscript note, 1781 June 12-19 Scope and Content Note Concerning the June 8, 1781 fire at the Paris Opéra aux Tuileries. Dossier no. 10.

Box 1, Folder 10 Caffieri, Philippe, Signed manuscript document, 1696 April 16-1705 January 2 Scope and Content Note Manuscript features two dates: 1696 at the top left and 1705 at the bottom, before the signatures. Also signed by Caffieri's wife, Françoise Renault. Dossier no. 11.

Box 1, Folder 11 Chalgrin, Jean-François-Thérèse, Letter to Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1775 October 6 Scope and Content Note Accompanying manuscript note indicates that Vernet is Chalgrin's father-in-law. Dossier no. 12.

Box 1, Folder 12 Chalgrin, Jean-François-Thérèse, Letter to Monsieur Bourboulon with manuscript note by Jean-François Colson on verso, 1784 May 28 Scope and Content Note Also includes a manuscript letter in a third hand to M. le Prince. Dossier no. 13/14.

Box 1, Folder 13 Clemens, Johan Frederik, Signed letter, with additional letter on verso from unidentified correspondent, 1798-1800 December Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 15.

Box 1, Folder 14 Clève, Corneille van, Signed manuscript receipt, 1700 August 24 Scope and Content Note With a color photograph of a bust of van Clève. Dossier no. 109.

Box 1, Folder 15 Crozat, Pierre, Letter to Antoine Crozat, undated Scope and Content Note Modern documentary material includes a color photograph of a portrait of Antoine Crozat. Dossier no. 16.

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Box 1, Folder 16 Déclaration du Roi, relative aux arts de peinture & de sculpture , 1778 March 15 Scope and Content Note Seven-page printed pamphlet of a declaration issued by Louis XVI and registered in the Parlement of Navarre on June 5, 1778. The king declares free, in Paris and throughout the kingdom, the arts of painting and sculpture, and establishes academies for these arts. Features de Lancey's embossed stamp on several pages. Dossier no. 17.

Box 3, Folder 1 Delaunay, Nicolas, Signed manuscript receipt on vellum, 1706 May 31 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 40.

Box 3, Folder 2 Duplessis, Joseph-Siffrède, Royal brevet manuscript on vellum, 1780 January 30 Scope and Content Note Brevet granting Duplessis lodgings in the Louvre, in the space formerly occupied by Jean-Siméon Chardin. Dossier no. 18.

Box 1, Folder 17 Gabriel, Ange-Jacques, Letters to the comte d'Angiviller, 1778 March 5-August 17 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 20.

Box 1, Folder 18 Gabriel, Ange-Jacques, Letters, 1804 February 16-1811 January 25 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 21.

Box 1, Folder 19 Gamble, James, Letter to Le Brun, 1795 June 27 Scope and Content Note Letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: le 9 Messidor l'an 3ième. Dossier no. 22.

Box 1, Folder 20 Gautier, M., Letter to Botteau, au Palais National du Directoire, undated Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 23.

Box 1, Folder 21 Guiard, Laurent, Letter to Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, 1784 January 20 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 24.

Box 1, Folder 22 Guiard, Laurent, Letter to Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, circa 1784 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 25.

Box 3, Folder 3 Guiard, Laurent, Signed manuscript promissory note, 1767 August 5 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 26.

Box 1, Folder 23 Hallé, Noël, Letter to Monsieur, 1775 November 8 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 27.

Box 1, Folder 24 Hallé, Noël, Letter to Monsieur, 1776 April 20 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 28.

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Box 4*, Folder 2 Hardouin Mansart de Sagonne, Jacques, Signed manuscript contract, 1750 August 3 Scope and Content Note Contract signed by Hardouin-Mansart, Bourgeois, Chartier, and Marchand. Dossier no. 93.

Box 1, Folder 25 Hazon, Michel-Barthélemy, Letter regarding changes ordered by Louis XV to the Château de Choisy, 1768 July 6 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 29.

Box 1, Folder 26 Hettlinger, Jean-Jacques, Letter to an unidentified citizen, 1798 January 8 Scope and Content Note Letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: le 19 Nivôse, ann 6. Dossier no. 30.

Box 1, Folder 27 Heurtier, Jean-François, Letter to Trudaine, 1776 June 20 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 31.

Box 1, Folder 28 Heurtier, Jean-François, Certificat de bon Service ou d'Entretien des Bâtimens du Roi , 1791 September Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 32.

Box 1, Folder 29 Houdon, [Jean-Antoine?], Letter to Jean-Bernard Restout, 1792 November 26 Scope and Content Note Possibly Jacques-Philippe Houdon, brother of the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. Dossier no. 33.

Box 1, Folder 30 Houlié, François-Simon, Signed manuscript account closing document, 1785 July 28 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 34.

Box 3, Folder 4 Huet, Nicolas, le Vieux, Signed manuscript receipt for paintings done for the marquis de [Gontaut?], 1774 October 24 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 36.

Box 4*, Folder 3 Jean, Stanislas, Marquis de Boufflers, Manuscript letters and petitions from artists, 1791 March 30-1792 October 26 Scope and Content Note Includes petitions from the Fédération des Artistes for the Assemblée Nationale. Also includes typescript transcriptions of original manuscript documents. Dossier no. 19.

Box 1, Folder 31 Jouvenet, Nöel V, Signed manuscript receipt, 1706 July 4 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 37.

Box 1, Folder 32 Kooi, Willem Bartel van der, Letters, 1814 August 17-1904 May 19 Scope and Content Note 1814 letter by van der Kooi to Jos. J. Cari and 1904 letter from Paul Ralluriaw. Dossier no. 38.

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Box 1, Folder 33 Largillierre, Nicolas de, Signed manuscript inventory with two engraved portraits of the artist, 1742 March 31 Scope and Content Note Inventory consists of items in Largillierre's home on rue Geoffroy-Langevin in Paris. Dossier no. 39.

Box 1, Folder 34 Laurent, Pierre-François, Signed manuscript contract for an engraving by Nicolas Thomas, 1792 April 3 Scope and Content Note Contract for an engraving of a painting from the office of Louis XVI. Also signed by Nicolas Thomas. Dossier no. 41.

Box 1, Folder 35 Laurent, Pierre-François, Signed manuscript contract for an engraving, 1792 February 7 Scope and Content Note Contract for an engraving of painting, St. Jean et Notre Seigneur. Also signed by Jean-Baptiste Palas. Dossier no. 42.

Box 4*, Folder 4 Le Noir, Simon-Bernard, Manuscript partition of estate, 1772 September [10?] Scope and Content Note Partition also includes Alexandre de Roussy. Dossier no. 51.

Box 1, Folder 36 Le Roy, Julien-David, Letter to Monsieur, 1792 May 4 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 52.

Box 3, Folder 5 LeComte, Félix, Signed manuscript receipt for his statue of Charles Rollin, 1788 December 5 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 45.

Box 1, Folder 37 Lemonnier, Anicet-Charles-Gabriel, Letter to Monseigneur, 1813 October 23 Scope and Content Note On letterhead for the Manufacture Impériale des Gobelins, where Lemonnier served as the director. Dossier no. 46.

Box 1, Folder 38 Lemonnier, Anicet-Charles-Gabriel, Letter to Monsieur le rédacteur, 1817 November 6 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 47.

Box 1, Folder 39 Lemonnier, Anicet-Charles-Gabriel, Letter to Monsieur le Commissaire du Roi, 1824 April 9 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 48.

Box 4*, Folder 5 Lempereur, Louis-Simon, Letter to M. Cuvillier, 1775 November 3 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 49.

Box 1, Folder 40 Lempereur, Louis-Simon, Letter to M. Le Comte, 1778 October 24 Scope and Content Note Regarding a delay in seeing a painting by Poussin. Dossier no. 50.

Box 1, Folder 41 Lieutaud, Guillaume, Signed manuscript document, 1707 March 31 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 53.

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Box 1, Folder 42 Loir, Marianne, Letter to Messieurs, 1768 January 12 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 54.

Box 3, Folder 6 Loys, Étienne, Printed epithalamium, 1749 August 18 Scope and Content Note Printed epithalamium dedicated to Étienne Loys, fiancé of Miss Jeanne Desandrieux. Printed by Jean Martel, printer for the king. Dossier no. 69.

Box 3, Folder 7 Lucas, François, Signed manuscript contract with de Lassus, farm director for the king, 1768 September 24 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 55.

Box 1, Folder 43 Mathieu, Jean, Signed manuscript note concerning an agreement with M. Lacombe, 1789 October 22

Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 56.

Box 4*, Folder 6 Müller, Johann Gotthard von, Letter to Johann Georg Wille, 1783 March 1 Scope and Content Note Original letter in German, with a French translation by A. [Charlin?], and an ink and pencil drawing of a young girl, possibly of von Müller's daughter. Modern documentary material includes a photograph of an engraving titled, Frau und Kind , of the artist's wife and daughter. Dossier no. 57.

Box 4*, Folder 7 Musées de la République, Manuscript list of paintings chosen by the commission for the formation of the museums, undated Scope and Content Note Table includes names of artists as well as the dimensions, subjects, and conservation status of paintings selected. Dossier no. 58.

Box 3, Folder 8 Ozanne, François, Manuscript discharge of debt on vellum, 1745 October 15 Scope and Content Note Discharge of debt for Gilles Charpentier, teacher of Charles-Martin Caffieri (?). Dossier no. 59.

Box 4*, Folder 8 Perronet, Jean-Rodolphe, Letters, 1786 July 21-August 18 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 60.

Box 1, Folder 44 Peyre, Marie-Joseph, Letter requesting the cord of Saint Michel, 1780 February 3 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 61.

Box 3, Folder 9 Pierre, Jean-Baptiste-Marie, Signed manuscript pension payment, 1789 March 31 Scope and Content Note Signed by Lazon, Jardin, and Pierre and counter-signed by d'Angiviller. Dossier no. 62.

Box 1, Folder 45 Poërson, Charles-François, Letter to Monseigneur, 1709 April 13 Scope and Content Note Poërson shares news about the papal courts and the French Academy in , where he served as director. Dossier no. 63.

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Box 1, Folder 46 Poërson, Charles-François, Letter to Monseigneur, 1709 October 25 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 64.

Box 4*, Folder 9 Poërson, Charles-François, Letter to Monsieur, 1729 December 16 Scope and Content Note Regarding the Duke of Chartres and the Duke Danlin. Dossier no. 65.

Box 1, Folder 47 Ponce, Nicolas, Letter to Madame, 1802 September 4 Scope and Content Note Letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: 17 fructidor an x. Dossier no. 66.

Box 1, Folder 48 Poyet, Bernard, Letter to M. Chapui, 1798 September 30 Scope and Content Note Letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: le 9 vendémiaire an 7. Dossier no. 67.

Box 4*, Folder 10 Racle, Léonard, Letter to Monsieur Amanton, lawyer for Parliament, 1789 [September?] 9 Scope and Content Note Includes an engraving of the Ferney-Voltaire Castle, near Geneva. Dossier no. 68.

Box 4*, Folder 11 Regnault, Jean-Baptiste, Letter to Messieurs, 1791 February 25 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 70.

Box 4*, Folder 12 Renard, [Philippe?], Letter to Monsieur [Luvey?], 1771 December 19 Scope and Content Note Modern documentary materials include a color photograph of a book cover for Portraits & Autoportraits d'Artistes au XVIIIͤ Siècle by Philippe Renard. Dossier no. 71.

Box 2, Folder 1 Renou, Antoine, Letter to M. de Condorcet, perpetual secretary at the Académie des Sciences, 1792 May 23 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 74.

Box 3, Folder 10 Renou, Antoine, Letter to M. Moulin, perpetual secretary at the Académie de Marseille, 1782 January 7 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 72.

Box 4*, Folder 13 Renou, Antoine, Letter to Messieurs of the Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, 1785 January 10 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 73.

Box 2, Folder 2 Restout, Jean, the Younger, Fragment of a signed manuscript contract on vellum, undated Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 83.

Box 2, Folder 3 Restout, Jean-Bernard, Letter to Charles-Nicolas Cochin, the Younger, 1781 October 4 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 76.

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Box 2, Folder 4 Restout, Jean-Bernard, Letters to Jabineau de Marolles, 1789 October 21-23 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 77.

Box 2, Folder 5 Restout, Jean-Bernard, Manuscript note to M. Joly, 1786 June 21 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 78.

Box 2, Folder 6 Restout, Jean-Bernard, Letter to Monsieur, 1791 September 29 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 79.

Box 2, Folder 7 Restout, Jean-Bernard, Signed manuscript note concerning furniture at the Louvre, 1792 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 80.

Box 2, Folder 8 Restout, Jean-Bernard, Letter to Tamelin, Chef de Bureaux du Garde-Meuble National, 1796 January 19 Scope and Content Note Letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: 1'an 4 le 29 nivôse. Dossiers no. 81-82.

Box 4*, Folder 14 Restout, Jean-Bernard, Letter to Messieurs, 1763 January 8 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 75.

Box 2, Folder 9 Robert, Hubert, Manuscript promissory note, between 1733 and 1808 May 1 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 35.

Box 3, Folder 11 Roettiers, [Joseph-Charles], Letter to a citizen, 1793 June 14 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 86.

Box 2, Folder 10 Roettiers, Jacques, Letter, 1796 June 13 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 87, with dossier no. 84 of modern documentary material on the Roettiers family.

Box 2, Folder 11 Roettiers, Marie Anne Besnier, Signed manuscript document, 1785 June 20 Scope and Content Note Widow of Jacques Roettiers III. Dossier no. 85.

Box 3, Folder 12 Roland, Philippe-Laurent, Letter to the Citizen Ambassador of the Batavian Republic, 1800 May 25

Scope and Content Note Letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: le 5 Prairial An 8. Dossier no. 88.

Box 4*, Folder 15 Roland, Philippe-Laurent, Signed passport, 1813 June 4 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 89.

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Box 3, Folder 13 Rondolet, Jean-Baptiste, Autograph drafts of letters written in Rome, 1782 July 2-1784 August 4

Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 92.

Box 3, Folder 14 Rondolet, Jean-Baptiste, Letter to [Louis or Victor] Auger, 1794 October 13 Scope and Content Note On printed letterhead for the Commission of Public Works. Letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: le 22 du mois Vendémiaire de l'an 3. Dossier no. 90.

Box 2, Folder 12 Rondolet, Jean-Baptiste, Letter to citizen Galimard, 1795 March or April Scope and Content Note On printed letterhead for the Commission of Public Works. Letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: Germinal, l'an 3. Dossier no. 91.

Box 2, Folder 13 Saint [Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin?], Letter to Jean Pierre Norblin, undated Scope and Content Note Collector annotations indicate that this letter is by an 18th century painter. Dossier no. 94.

Box 4*, Folder 16 Saly, Jacques-François-Joseph, Letter to Monsieur, 1766 December 25 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 95.

Box 4*, Folder 17 Saly, Jacques-François-Joseph, Letter to Monsieur, 1768 March 3 Scope and Content Note Modern documentary materials indicate that the letter was written the day after Saly cast the statue, Frederik V on Horseback. Dossier no. 96.

Box 2, Folder 14 Saly, Jacques-François-Joseph, Manuscript notes [fragments?], 1766 January 2-1768 March 29 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 97.

Box 2, Folder 15 Sigrist, Franz, the Elder, Signed manuscript receipt, 1770 February 10 Scope and Content Note Receipt is for payment from M. Boulinier for a painting on wood of Pierre Wauvermann titled Flanders Fair. Dossier no. 98.

Box 2, Folder 16 Soufflot, Jacques-Germain, Letters and manuscript excerpt from artists' statement, 1793 October 20-1881 June 4 Scope and Content Note Excerpt is from a 1793 statement by artist citizens concerning the cupola of the Panthéon. The 1796 letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: le 22 Ventôse, 4ͤ année. A second letter, dated [18?]81 and with an illegible signature, references the 1796 letter. Both 18th century manuscripts include drawings and figures relating to the cupola. Dossier no. 99.

Box 2, Folder 17 Spaendonck, Gerard van, Manuscript excerpt of lessons by M. D'Aubenton, undated Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 100.

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Box 3, Folder 15 Surugue, Louis, Manuscript lease agreement for an apartment on rue des Noyers, Paris, 1728 December 8 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 101.

Box 2, Folder 18 Swebach, Jacques-François-Joseph, Letter to M. Leduc of Toulouse, [?] January 28 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 103.

Box 2, Folder 19 Swebach, Jacques-François-Joseph, Signed manuscript receipt for a painting sold to M. d'Harcourt, 1821 September 5 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 102.

Box 2, Folder 20 Tassaert, Jean-Joseph-François, Letter to citizens, 1796 August 18 Scope and Content Note Letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: le 1ͤ fructidor l'an 4. Dossier no. 104.

Box 4*, Folder 18 Thévenin, Charles, Letter to the prefect of the department of the Seine, 1822 January 8 Scope and Content Note With a print of a Thévenin engraving of Suzanne at the baths, after the Correggio piece at the Rosenstein Palace. Dossier no. 105.

Box 2, Folder 21 Thomassin, Simon, Signed manuscript discharge of debt on vellum, 1691 May 28 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 106.

Box 4*, Folder 19 Tramblin, Charles-André, Manuscript document and letter to M. DeMeville, 1751 December 1, undated Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 107.

Box 2, Folder 22 Valade, Jean, Signed partial manuscript life annuity receipts on vellum, 1772-1783 Scope and Content Note With two portrait prints of unidentified men in profile. Dossier no. 108.

Box 2, Folder 23 Vanloo-Berger, Signed manuscript receipt, 1773 March 8 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 110.

Box 2, Folder 24 Vassé, Louis-Claude, Signed manuscript receipt for sculptures for M. Corman, 1750 April 20 Scope and Content Note Sculptures made in the 1710s-1720s. Dossier no. 111.

Box 2, Folder 25 Vien, Joseph-Marie, the Elder, Letter to a citizen colleague, 1800 January 23 Scope and Content Note Letter is dated using the French Republican calendar: le 3 pluviôse an 8. Dossier no. 116.

Box 2, Folder 26 Vien, Joseph-Marie, the Elder, Letter to M. Loys, 1744 January 6 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 112.

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Box 3, Folder 16 Vien, Joseph-Marie, the Elder, Letter to M. Reboul, 1779 September 7 Scope and Content Note Letter mentions Lagrenée, Robin, Roslin, Coustou, Dernet, and Gandet, among others. Dossier no. 114.

Box 3, Folder 17 Vien, Joseph-Marie, the Elder Letter to Monsieur, 1779 May 19 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 113.

Box 2, Folder 27 Vien, Joseph-Marie, the Elder, Letter to Monsieur le Comte, 1791 April 12 Scope and Content Note With a color photograph of a portrait of Vien. Dossier no. 115.

Box 4*, Folder 20 Vigée-LeBrun, Elisabeth Louise, Letter from the Ministre de l'Intérieur, 1797 May 8 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 43.

Box 2, Folder 28 Vigée-LeBrun, Elisabeth Louise, Signed manuscript receipt, 1797 March 15 Scope and Content Note Dossier no. 44.

Finding aid for the Cornelius Ver 2017.M.62 14 Heyden de Lancey collection of French letters and docume...