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Title: Printed and manuscript letter Signed, in French - 1886 Director Of The Louvre Who Insulted Manet Author: Kaempfen, A.[lbert] Place: Paris Publisher: Date: 1886 Description: 1 pp. Printed document, with manuscript writing, and signed A. Kaempfen. 10¾x8¼". To G. Guillaume, notifying him that the School would buy 20 copies of his biography of painter Antoine Watteau. Kaempfen (1826-1907) was a lawyer, journalist and minor author, his best-known book being a parody of Napoleon III’s “Paris, Capital of the World”. Despite meager accomplishments, in 1882, Kaempfen became Director of the Beaux-Arts and, five years later, Director of the Louvre and the French National Museums, a powerful position he held until 1904. Derided as a hack “journalist” by Degas, he refused to allow the Beaux-Arts to hold an exhibition of the works of Manet, whom he called “nothing less than revolutionary” and later banned Impressionist paintings from the Louvre during his tenure. Lot Amendments Condition: Foxed with light edge wear; very good. Item number: 235911