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^[[[[underline]] N. Y. Circulating Library of Paintings [[/underline]]]]

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December 1, 1947

Dear Miss Sadowsky;

Please find herein a photograph of the painting representing "St. Francis" by Strozzi. It is a very beautiful picture and very typical of the artist.

The authorship was confirmed by two world-famous authorities on Italian paintings, the Professor August L. Mayer who before the war was director of the Museum in Munich, Germany, and by the Professor Lionello Venturi.

A painting of the same subject exists in the Academy in Sienna, but on comparing the two paintings (it can be seen at the Frick Library), one sees right away that our painting is certainly not less beautiful and not less powerful than the Siennese picture.

You will find mentioned on the back of the photograph the color description, the former collections, and the exhibitions where the painting was shown.

Let me add that while the colors are mainly brown, the background is of a dark-blue green tone.

The net price to you is $4,200.- (Forty-two hundred dollars).

t.s.v.p.