Jacques-Émile BLANCHE (1861-1942). Signed autograph manuscript; 2 pages in-4. Attached is a small portrait of Blanche in profile in pen. On Albert Besnard, about an exhibition at Georges Petit's. "What generosity of a prodigal, what strong health, what variety! ...] They are mother-of-pearl flesh, iridescent glass, oriental scarves, ... robust or slender nudes, portraits ingeniously combined, in interiors lit from all sides, by doors to the garden and by lamps; ... Besnard is in the line of our sumptuous and intimate painters"... Etc.