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September 14, 1960 

Dear Mr. Sandoz: 

Hardly will you have received my last letter that another one will be on your door-steps. 

The purpose of my writing again is in connection with my large Chasseriau drawings about which I have had a new thought - a link which in fact has probably not escaped you.  Just by chance, I have run across reproductions, bad ones at that, of the series of battle scenes by Charles Lebrun, referring to Alexander the Great. I allude particularly to the "Bataille d'Arbelles", and the one of the "Traversée du Granique". It is truly stricking to notice how some of these figures are close in posture and in spirit to the ones in the two drawings by Chasseriau. 

By calling these anew to your attention (for these paintings are certainly well known to you, though I do not recall having seen them of late at the Louvre where they are supposed to be) is not only from the stylistic angle, but also and perhaps especially on account of the subject.  In other words, I am wondering whether the literary background is not the one Chasseriau was interested in.  Do we know if, by any chance, he made a study of the history of Alexander? 

Do let me have your views on this topic when you are at leisure. 

Thanking you in advance and, with best personal regards, 

Sincerely yours, 

Germain Seligman 

Mr. Marc Sandoz 
30, Rue St. James 
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 

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