CUSTINE (de), Astolphe (1790-1857)
Autograph letter signed « A. de Custine » [to Madame de Courbonne]
Rome, 5 Feb. 1852, 9 p. ¼ in-8°, in brown ink
« Everything is so imposing at the Vatican that one always returns from it both amazed and enriched. Michelangelo, that sublime corrupter of art, is nowhere more astonishing! »
EUR 3.500,-