47 photographs of 43 artists in their Paris studios. Artists include: Louise Abbema, Albert Aublet, Riene Bellcourt, Jean Beraud, Paul Albert Besnard, Maurice Bompard, Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, Gustave Rodolphe Clarence Boulanger, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Georges Jules Victor Clairin, Louis Joseph Rapheal Collin, Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant, Fernand Cormon, Gustave Courtois, Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan, Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, Ernest Ange Duez, Carolus Duran, Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere, T. R. Fleury, J. Frappa, Walter Gay, Jean Leon Gerome, Henri Gervex, George Peter Alexander Healy, Antoine Auguste Ernest Hebert, Jean Jacques Henner, Charles Jacques, Jean Paul Laurens, Jules Lefebvre, Albert Maignan, Luc Olivier Merson, Aime Nicolas Morot, Mihaly Munkacsy, Alphonse Wane de Neuville, Georges Rochegrosse, Alfred Philippe Roll, John Singer Sargent, Alfred Stevens, and George Adolphus Storey.
The studios show mainly a strong Moorish influence.
Provenance:
Donated by the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1971, which had received them from a Mrs. Kirkham?, a painter who probably purchased them while studying in Paris.
Letters are primarily written to Mosler with scattered letters written by him. Of particular note is a letter to his parents written from 3 miles outside Corinth, Mississippi on 22 May 1862 in which he describes the scene during the Siege of Corinth following the Battle of Shiloh.
Calling/congratulation cards were sent in response to Mosler's winning the gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1888 and being awarded the Ordre National Légion d'Honneur in 1892.
Correspondents include members of the military regarding his service in 1861-1863 and can be found in several places. A folder of Civil War letters includes Brigadier General R. W. Johnson's request for Mosler to serve as aide-de-camp, and a March 1863 letter from a friend (Bradley?) encamped at Murfreesboro and referring to the building of fortifications there following the Second Battle of Murfreesboro. Letters from Harper's Weekly include a summary of Mosler's military service from 1861-1863 and a handwritten account of his experiences in September 1861 in and around Louisville, Kentucky. Also found are letters from the United States Army and the Department of the Interior in 1885 introducing Mosler as a "distinguished artist" visiting the West. Included are 3 letters from General Philip Sheridan in which he refers to the "indians, in their uncivilized state," and Mosler's desire "to be able to depict them in a correct light."
Other letters are from museums and art associations, Mosler family members, including Mosler's children, artist Gustave Henry Mosler and Edith Mosler, friends and colleagues including artists James Henry Beard, Julien Dupré, Gabriel Ferrier, François Flameng, Ernest Hébert, William Henry Howe, Heinrich Mücke (history painter and Mosler's Düsseldorf professor), J. Francis Murphy, William Ordway Partridge, and Leon Germain Pelouse, among others. Letters from the Ministere de l'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts include the 1879 purchase certificate for Mosler's painting Le Retour, and a letter assigning the painting to the Luxembourg Museum.
Letters from the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States confirm Mosler's election as a Member-at-Large to the order in 1896. Also found is a list of autographs of Cincinnati Artists representing a petition to suggest that the Cincinnati Museum purchase Mosler's painting The Last Moments.
Many of the letters are in French and German.
See Appendix for an extened list of correspondents in Series 2.
Arrangement note:
The bulk of the series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent in general files or in named files if there are 5 or more letters from an individual correspondent. A group of files arranged by subject can be found at the beginning of the series.
Appendix: Extended List of Correspondents from Series 2:
This appendix is taken from an existing list compiled at some point after the collection was accessioned and is intended to assist in identifying correspondents, as many signatures are difficult to decipher or illegible. Completeness and accuracy of the list cannot be guaranteed.
Abraham, Victor Emmanuel
Adan, Emile
Aldine, Publishing Co.
Allis, Edward Phelps
Avery, Samuel P.
Bail, Joseph
Bailly-Blanchard, Col.
Barria, J. (?)
Bartlett, Paul
Bartell, Prof. V.
Bassier, Cabinet du Ministre
Bates, Harry, Godey Co.
Bauerle, Carl
Beard, Dan
Beard, James Henry
Beau, Alfred
Beer, F.
Benedite, Leonce
Bigelow, C. B., American Art Association
Bodkin, Charlotte
Boulanger, Gen.
Bournand, François
Bourne, George
Bradley, L. P.
Breton, Jules
Bridgman, F. A.
Brispot, Henri
Brozik, Vacslav
Buhler, F. Zuber
Burgers, H. J.
Butler, E., Cincinnatti Art Club
Cabanel, Alexandre
Cabinet du Ministre
Carl-Rosa, Mario
Cauffman, Sig. J.
Chamberlin, W. H., Loyal Legion
Chambre des Deputes
Champney, J. Wells
Church
Cincinnatti Commercial Office
Ckenbracher (?), T.
Cleveland, Lucy
Collins, M.
Constant, Benjamin
Corrington (?), John
Cortissoz, Royal
Courtois, Gustave
Crefeu, Etienne
Cramer, Mary (letter of introduduction to President Ulysses S. Grant)
Crawrford, Emily
Cummings, Dorothy
Dagnan, P.A.J.
Dal-, Leon
Dameron, E.
Danzinger, Rosa
Davis, Charles (?)
Davis, Margaret S.
de Campan, P.
De Chavannes, P.
de Czachorski, Ladislas
de Lambert, Marguerite
de Luce, Percival
de Mun, Albert
d'Almeida, W. B.
D'Ozouville, A.
deJean, A.
Delabbe (?), A.
Dennis, W. J.
Dessar, Louis
Dix, M. (?), miniature painter
Dodge, Harrison H.
Doubouchet, G.
Dougan, D. H.
Drapeau, Le
Du Nimes (?), Renee
Dubouchet, M./Mme.
Dupain, Edmund
Dupre, Julien
Dustin, Silas S. (?)
Dyer, Charles Gifford
Ech-, A.
Edgar, Oscar
Ehrich, Louis R.
Erefey (?)
Ezekiel, Moses-Jakob
Faber, L. E.
Ferrier, Gabriel
Fertiault, François
Field, painter
Flameng, François
Fleury, J. (?) Robert
Fleury, Jean
Ford, Sheridan
Frebauly (?)
Fuster, Charles
Ga-, Jules
Galland, Bertha
Gardner, Elisabeth
Garnier, Edouard
Garvier (?), Edward
Gatineu
Goshorn, A. S. (Director Cincinnati Museum Association)
Gross, P. A.
Guay, Gabriel
Guillaumet, P.
Guygellion, Louise (?)
H-, Edumnd
Halsted, W.
Hardeman, Elizabeth
Haquette, Georges
Harper & Bros.
Harper's Weekly
Hartmann, Sad-
Hassaurek, Frederick
Haven, Daisy
Haymes, H.
Healy, G.P.A.
Hébert, Ernest
Henger, Thomas E. (?)
Henry, Edward L.
Hoebel, Arthur, -- New York Times
Homer, W. H.
Hooper, Lucy
Howe, W. H.
Hustin, M./Mme.
Ingalls, M. E.
Iwill
Jacob, Stephen
James, Maj. F. B. (Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States)
Jansen, P.
Joergens
Johnson, Brigadier General R. W.
Jordan, D. M.
Kaplan, A. O.
Kauffmann, S. H. (?), Corcoran
Knight, Ridgway
Knoedler, R. F.
Kroyer (?), F.
Kuhn
L-ington, W.P.L.
Lamar, L.Q.C., Secretary of the Interior (letter of introduction)
Lasoniere
Lassaille, M.
Lau-, Frederick S.
Laugee, Georges
Le E-, L. M.
Le Leusche, L. M. (?)
Le Roux, Hector
Lee
Lefebvre, Jules
Leighton, Frederic
Leipziger, H. M.
Leisten (or Leister), Jacobus
Leunier (?)
Lhermitte, Leon
Loyal Legion of the United States
Miles, Roger
Mabel-Trevor, Helen (?)
MacPherson, G. G.
Madden, Thomas
Maignan, Albert
Marks, Montague
Masson, Charles, Ministere de l'Instruction Publique
Mayer, Henry
Mayers, Nathan
Mayers, C.
Mehaus, C. H. (?)
Meikie (?), H.
Melchers, Gari
Merson, Luc Olivier
Mielziner, Leo
Mieuer, D. J.
Miller, Juanita
Miller, L. W., Art Club of Philadelphia
Ministere de l'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts
Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres
Moch, M. E.
Mocker, Melchior
Moeselagen, F.
Moeselagen, J.
Moffat, W. D.
Morris, A. K., YMCA
Morton, Levi Parsons
Moses, Otto A.
Moses-Jacob, Ezekiel
Mosler, Agnes
Mosler, Edith
Mosler, Gustave
Mourges, Robert
Moyes
Mücke, Heinrich
Mullin, Alex J.
Murphy, J. Francis
Neal, David
New York Herald
Nicoll, J. C., National Academy of Design
Niehaus, Charles H.
Noble, S.
Noble, T. S.
Nontet, D.
Ollendorf, Gustave
Paine, H. G., -- Harper's Weekly
Palmer, Ray
Panhauts, C. M. (?)
Partridge, William Ordway
Pearce, Charles Sprague
Pelouse, Leon Germain
Pengelly, W. G.
Petitjean, E.
Peixotto
Picknell, William L.
Pleinpent (?), F. B.
Plimpton, C. A.
Porral, Jules
Profesional Photographer's Society of New York
Race, G. F.
Rae, Alison
Rea, John S.
Read, Thomas Buchanan
Reid, J. (?)
Rettig, John
Richards, Renée
Reid, Robert S.
Rongier, Jeanne
Rosenberg, H.
Rosenthal, Albert
Rosenthal, Toby E.
Roth, Th. (?)
Royal Academy (invitation)
Ruze, Adolphe
Sherard, Robert (?)
Saile, Fernand
Saint-, G.
Sardey, V.
Sayler, Nelson (letter of introduction)
Schatz, Joseph L.
Schaus, W (?)
Scribe, Fernand
Seissen, F. (?)
Sh-, R. M.
Shearard, Robert M.
Simmons, Sallie M.
Skinnner, Otis
Smillie, George
Smith, Rufus H.
Stanhope
Stanton, Theodore
Surand, Gustave
Thierot, J. H.
Thompson, Harry
Thouron, Henry
Townsend, George Alfred
Trebaulz, T.
Trioche, Gen.
Turner, C. Y.
Turner, Henry
Turquel, Edmund: see Ministere de l'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts
Turquet, Henry
Turquet, M.
Turquet, Octavie
United States Army, Sheridan, Lt. General Philip Henry (letters introducing Mosler)
United States Department of the Interior (letters introducing Mosler)
Vanderstraeyen, L.
Vaul, Eugene
Vauthier, Pierre
Vele-, Gustave
Vey-, J.
Vezin, Charles
Vidal, E.
Vignaud, Henry
Volksblatt, Cincinnati
von Catharin, D. (from Henry Mosler)
von Piloty, Carl
Vonnoh, Robert W.
Voruz, E.
Vower, J.
Wameron, Peter
Watrous, H. W.
Wattson, A. Francis
Webber, C. T.
Weeks, E. L.
Whistler, J. McNeill (1 calling card)
Wight, Moses
William, Moses
Wismile, William
Worms, Henry
Worms, Ida
Wright, M.
Y-, Edmond
Zein
Zuber-Buhler
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Henry Mosler papers, 1856-1929. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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