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Dear Doctor Sanchez Canton:-

On my return to New York from a short holiday, I find your agreeable letter of July 4th., which is much appreciated. I am glad, too, that you have found the color transparency of "The Descent from the Cross" sufficiently interesting to retain it for the time being.

Your approving words in regard to the painting, especially as to its value as an acquisition for the Museo del Prado, prompt me to submit for your consideration, some full-size detail photographs of the personages in the painting. Possibly, with these to supplement the photograph in color, the impression gained by you from the letter, of a certain lack of refinement in the faces, may be revised. And too, the important details in the background, the castles, trees, streams and people, will be more easily seen and compared with the same type of details in the magnificent Bermejo in Barcelona. So, as soon as my photographer returns from his August holiday, I shall order him to make these photographs.

The policy of the Museo del Prado of not exchanging one of its paintings in order to acquire another more desired, can be understood, though perhaps at times, it is to be regretted. Since my client is equally interested in early sculpture of high quality, is it possible that this might make an exchange arrangement more feasible for the Museum?

With renewed thanks, I am, Senor Director,

Sincerely yours,

Dear Germain: Submitted for critical comment, revision or replacement.
[[strikethrough]]John J. Cunningham[[/strikethrough]]

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