[Prosper MÉRIMÉE]. Portrait of his father Jean-François-Léonor Mérimée by Guillaume Guillon Lethière (1760-1832); drawing in brown ink, signed and captioned; about 16 x 11 cm, cut irregularly and pasted on card in-8. Léonor Mérimée (1757-1836), a painter, literator and chemist, was appointed in 1806 as perpetual secretary of the Academy of Painting, which later became the School of Fine Arts. He is represented in bust, in profile, glasses on his nose, and wearing a cap. The drawing is thus captioned and signed: "Mr Mérimée Perpetual Secretary of the School of Fine Arts. Lethière ".