"les tableaux que nous comptons exposer pour le Salon du champ de Mars"

Autograph card from painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret to painter Lucien Monod. One card.
Trained in the studios of Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Dagnan-Bouveret received the second Prix de Rome. Of naturalist inspiration, he devoted himself to religious painting and had a prolific career as a portraitist at the end of his life. He received prestigious commissions from the Countess of Béarn and the New York Frick family.
"Je vous envoie pour la Société de sauvetage de l'Enfance [...] une eau-forte de ma Madone, épreuve sur Japon avant la lettre, signée du graveur et de moi. [...] Nous aurons grand plaisir mon ami Courtois et moi à vous montrer dimanche les tableaux que nous comptons exposer pour le Salon du champ de Mars" [I am sending you for the Society for Child Welfare [...] an etching of my Madonna, proof on Japan paper before letters, signed by the engraver and myself. [...] My friend Courtois and I will have great pleasure in showing you on Sunday the paintings we intend to exhibit at the Salon du champ de Mars]