Puvis de Chavannes (Pierre)

Autograph card signed ('P. Puvis'), to fellow artist Alfred Stevens, translated from French, reads in part “…but that will not console me about the idea that you are not sending us anything. My dear friend, the higher you are in reputation the more certain you are of attracting attention, just in showing something.[…] I think our Salon will be good; that is the impression of those of have glimpsed a number of submissions. That isn’t my care, I won’t even talk to you about Leopold, of whom I have seen nothing. And nothing new…”, one page, 145 x 110mm, Paris, April 25, 1893