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14 - GÉRÔME (Jean-Léon). Signed autograph letter to a “little Guillaume.” Paris, November 13, 1897. 1 p. in-8.
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GÉRÔME (Jean-Léon). Signed autograph letter to a “little Guillaume.” Paris, November 13, 1897. 1 p. in-8. “... Another story: a doctor—a very intelligent man, I must say—came up with the idea, to cure his patients suffering from priapism, of placing them for one hour a day for three weeks in a specially designed gallery, where he displayed nude female figures by Puvis de Chavannes and Rodin. This treatment works wonderfully, but it must not be prolonged too long, for the patients would never again have an erection in their lives; that is what happened to me a few years ago; I was imprudent enough to enter an exhibition where there were only such things on display, and ever since then I have.....” The recipient may be his former student, the painter and caricaturist Albert Guillaume. ENCLOSED: BANVILLE (Théodore de). Signed autograph letter to Auguste Vacquerie. Paris, undated.
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