WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of (1769-1852). Autograph letter signed (‘Wellington’) to [Charles Maurice de] Talleyrand[-Périgord] (‘Mon Prince’), Paris, 16 September 1815. In French. 203 x 131mm, bifolium, endorsed in later pen and pencil, (remains of guard on lower leaf). In the aftermath of Waterloo, Wellington enacts a restitution claim on behalf of the King of the Netherlands [William I] to restore artworks looted by the French. Wellington regrets that Talleyrand has failed to inform him of the decision of ‘Sa Majesté’ [Louis XVIII] regarding the pictures belonging to the King of the Netherlands, of which Wellington must now take possession, using military force if necessary: ‘J'annonce à votre Altesse à present que si vous ne me faites pas connaître la volonté de Sa Majesté sur ce sujet dans la nuit, je marcherai un Corps de Troupes pour prendre possession des tableaux de Sa Majesté le Roi des Pays Bas demain à Midi’. After the French defeat in 1815, the victorious Allies were determined to repossess the artworks plundered by the French without delay. Talleyrand, as Pré sident du Conseil of Louis XVIII’s ministry, often found himself required to mediate: when, on the same day they entered Paris, the Prussians sent an armed contingent to the Louvre, it was he who intervened, noting that it would take some time to identify the relevant items.
WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of (1769-1852). Autograph letter signed (‘Wellington’) to [Charles Maurice de] Talleyrand[-Périgord] (‘Mon Prince’), Paris, 16 September 1815. In French. 203 x 131mm, bifolium, endorsed in later pen and pencil, (remains of guard on lower leaf). In the aftermath of Waterloo, Wellington enacts a restitution claim on behalf of the King of the Netherlands [William I] to restore artworks looted by the French. Wellington regrets that Talleyrand has failed to inform him of the decision of ‘Sa Majesté’ [Louis XVIII] regarding the pictures belonging to the King of the Netherlands, of which Wellington must now take possession, using military force if necessary: ‘J'annonce à votre Altesse à present que si vous ne me faites pas connaître la volonté de Sa Majesté sur ce sujet dans la nuit, je marcherai un Corps de Troupes pour prendre possession des tableaux de Sa Majesté le Roi des Pays Bas demain à Midi’. After the French defeat in 1815, the victorious Allies were determined to repossess the artworks plundered by the French without delay. Talleyrand, as Pré sident du Conseil of Louis XVIII’s ministry, often found himself required to mediate: when, on the same day they entered Paris, the Prussians sent an armed contingent to the Louvre, it was he who intervened, noting that it would take some time to identify the relevant items.
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