80-2 - Étienne GOIS (1731–1823), sculptor

Étienne GOIS (1731–1823), sculptor 2 P.S., Paris, 8 and 28 Germinal X (March–April 1802); 3 folio-sized pages, the second co-signed by the architect RONDELET, with a vignette and the printed letterhead of the Institution nationale du Lycée des Arts. Minutes of the meetings of the Fine Arts Class. 8 Germinal: HOUEL reads “a description of the ripples produced by the reflection of the sea’s waters on the Seine River”; BALTARD showed engravings “imitating wash drawings”… 28 Germinal: there was a discussion of the translation of a work by Lessing on the Laocoön group, which is said to predate Virgil’s description of it... Attached is a handwritten letter to Peyre from his son Edme Gois, dated July 22, who has completed “the sculptural works on the pediment of the St. Martin Market” and is requesting payment.