Robert LEFÈVRE (1755-1830). L.A.S., 7 July 1821, to the Marquis de Lauriston, Minister of the House of the King; 1 page in-fol. On his painting of the baptism of the Duke of Bordeaux. "It is by the august ceremony of baptism that the miraculous birth of Monseigneur le Duc de Bordeaux must be consecrated. Such a national subject is within the purview of painting, and I have taken it on board. I had the honour of putting the painted sketch of it before Your Excellency's eyes [...] I propose to treat it in a grand manner, as well as to paint resembling the main characters. As a painter of the King's Cabinet, for historical portraits, this subject falls within my attributions, my habits and perhaps within my means "...