A rare collection of European letters

From March 28, ACAE Gallery has the pleasure of exhibiting a rare collection of letters by European luminaries of the 18th, 19th and early 20th century.


Included are original manuscript letters by Claude Monet, Eugene Delacroix, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, W. Somerset Maughan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Queen Victoria


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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (1769–1821) 

Autograph signed letter to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, dictated to Claude François de Méneval, First Secretary, concerning military preparations before the invasion of Portugal

Dated November 2, 1807 

The letter is signed by Napoleon


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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840–1917) 

Autograph letter to Émile Mâle 

Rue de l’Université 182 (Rodin’s studio) 

Undated [c.1895–1898]


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Guest speaker, art historian Andrew Gaynor presenting the opening speech at European Masters: Original Autographs and Letters

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