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November 28th, 1951. ^[[checkmark]] Dear Mr. and Mrs. Chouteau: When you inquired about Renoirs last Summer, we were only able to send you a photograph of a small drawing by the artist. It represented, as you will recall, his son in the uniform of the "Chasseurs Alpin" during the First World War. Now, however, we are happy to be able to propose one of the Renoir's great paintings - "Master Thurneyssen" - of which a photograph is enclosed. The description is as follows: Oil on canvas (oval): 18" x 15" Signed and dated 1908. Painted at Cagnes, most probably, where he also painted the portrait of the young boy's mother, Madame Thurneyssen. It shows the sitter full face. His hair is very full and cut in bangs over his forehead. His eyes are blue and he wears a shirt and tie of striped white, pale blue, violet, green and yellow. The background is of blended greens and yellows. [[underlined]] Collections: [[/underlined]] The painting comes directly from the Thurneyssen family, Munich. [[underlined]] Exhibited: [[/underlined]] "Post-Impressionists and Their Followers" Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, 1949, No.15. we realize the difficulty in judging a painting from a photograph, but in you contemplate being in New York it would be a great pleasure to have you drop in. The price we are asking is Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars. Meanwhile you may be interested in having the enclosed catalogue of the ODILON REDON Exhibition which we held recently and which is now being shown by the Cleveland Museum. All of the pastels and drawings were borrowed from private European collections, to which they will be returned, unless, of course, Mr. Seligman succeeds is persuading some of the owners to part with their works. If you feel you would not be interested in this Renoir, would you kindly return the photograph. Yours very sincerely, Mrs. T. D. Parker. Mr. and Mrs. Auguste Chouteau, Willow Mill, Glen Ellen, California. ^[[ [[underlined]] Chouteau [[/underlined]] ]] ^[[GS]]