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Patron

Hortense Cornu

fl. 1860–1863 · France

French patron, active 1860–1863.

Life and work

  1. May 1860
    Introduced by Guillaume-Rey to Sosthene Grasset, who had drawn Guillaume-Rey's attention to Cyprus's archaeological wealth; at her initiative Napoleon III charged Renan with the Phoenicia mission (the Vogue/Duthoit Cyprus work followed).

    Foucart-Borville 1985, p. 3

  2. 1861
    Grasset asked, through Mme Cornu, for a mission to Cyprus aimed less at new discoveries than at preserving known monuments; she told him to go first to Vogue in Beirut. (Letter to Renan, 10 July 1861.)

    Bonato 1998

  3. 1863
    Grasset reports a letter from 'Madame C.' saying she had taken up his affair and asking him to buy Bellapais for a friend of her husband; his photographs, including the (Athienou) statue, had been shown to that friend. Bonato's note 118 reads 'Madame Cornu ?', i.e. tentative.

    Bonato 1999

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Jacques Foucart-Borville (1985). “La correspondance chypriote d'Edmond Duthoit (1862 et 1865)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 4, 3-60. Online
  2. 2.Lucie Bonato (1998). “Chypre dans les archives de Melchior de Vogüé (I) : à l'origine de la mission de 1862”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 28, 103-112.
  3. 3.Lucie Bonato (1999). “Chypre dans les archives de Melchior de Vogüé, II : correspondance de la « mission Vogüé » reçue au cours de l'année 1862”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 29, 141-166. Online