GÉRÔME (Jean-Léon) Paris, 18 October 1889... Autograph letter signed to a gentleman. 2 pages in-8 (20.5 x 13.2 cm), ink on paper, headed 65 boulevard de Clichy (address of Jean-Léon Gérôme's studio and home). The artist clarifies the status of Mr Boussod, whom he had recommended in a previous letter. Mr Boussod was "the head of Maison Goupil", a firm specialising in publishing and trading works of art and reproductions. With a few associates, he had taken over the work of founder Adolphe Goupil, with whom Gérôme maintained a family link: the artist had married his daughter. Gérôme sent this letter in order to "clear up a personal error, should one occur". Indeed, Mr Boussod's namesake, his son, was a conservative politician with whom the addressee would not have wished to associate. Inscriptions in red and blue pencil at the top of the first page. Pages slightly browned.