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STENDHAL [i.e. Marie Henri Beyle (1783-1842)]. Autograph letter signed ('M. Beyle') to [Arnould] Frémy, n. p. [Civitavecchia], 12 January 1835, 1 page, 4to, address panel, remains of seal (seal tear in bottom edge, slightly duststained on verso).
Advice to a young visitor to Milan to see Leonardo's Last Supper:
'Je vous recommande Monsieur, une fresque à moitié effacée, La Cène de Leonard da Vinci alla Caserma della grazia, Porta Vercellina. Vous vous repentirez un jour de ne pas avoir passé une heure vis à vis de ce mur(?)'. He also gives him various addresses in Milan, two of them near La Scala, and urges Frémy not to miss l'Agar by Guerchino in the Brera, 'et Hayez, le seul peintre éminent d'Italie'.
Stendhal lived in Milan from 1817-1821 when, banished by Metternich's police, he returned to France. He was appointed to a post in Civitavecchia in 1830. His accounts of his travels include many references to visits to art galleries in France and Italy, as well as his work on the history of Italian art (1817). Francesco Hayez (1791-1882), was the prominent Romantic painter of Italy in the mid-19th-century and painted frescoes for the Vatican. Stendhal's 26 year-old correspondent reviewed his Mémoires d'un touriste in the Revue de Paris in 1838.
Advice to a young visitor to Milan to see Leonardo's Last Supper:
'Je vous recommande Monsieur, une fresque à moitié effacée, La Cène de Leonard da Vinci alla Caserma della grazia, Porta Vercellina. Vous vous repentirez un jour de ne pas avoir passé une heure vis à vis de ce mur(?)'. He also gives him various addresses in Milan, two of them near La Scala, and urges Frémy not to miss l'Agar by Guerchino in the Brera, 'et Hayez, le seul peintre éminent d'Italie'.
Stendhal lived in Milan from 1817-1821 when, banished by Metternich's police, he returned to France. He was appointed to a post in Civitavecchia in 1830. His accounts of his travels include many references to visits to art galleries in France and Italy, as well as his work on the history of Italian art (1817). Francesco Hayez (1791-1882), was the prominent Romantic painter of Italy in the mid-19th-century and painted frescoes for the Vatican. Stendhal's 26 year-old correspondent reviewed his Mémoires d'un touriste in the Revue de Paris in 1838.
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