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                           PAUL DREY
Telephone PLaza 3-2551     Old Paintings and       11 East 57th Street 
Cable Address              Works of Art            New York, N.Y.
ASDREY New York                                        

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January 4, 1941 

Mr. Rolf H. Waegen
c/o Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc.
5 East 57th St., New York, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Waegen:

The data concerning the GRECO of which I am enclosing three photographs - one the painting complete and two of details - are:

GRECO - "The Holy Family"
Painted about 1590
Oil on canvas: 21 x 13½ inches.

From Collection Michael Dreicer
Metropolitan Museum of Art

As part of the Dreicer bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this painting came to that Museum, remaining there for several years.

In order to settle a controversy with the heirs of Michael Dreicer, who disputed the validity of the bequest, the Metropolitan Museum of Art returned to the Dreicer family Memling's famous "Portrait of a young man with arrow" which was later sold to Mellon and is now in the National Gallery at Washington, and this Greco, in view of the fact that the Metropolitan Museum of Art received also the Havemeyer bequest which includes Greco's "Portrait of a Cardinal" and Greco's "View of Toledo".

Exhibited: Toledo, "Spanish Painting", March and April, 1941, No. 43

Published: A. L. Mayer, "Greco", No. 31, Pl. 30
José R. Gudiol, "Spanish Painting", p.66, Illus. 43
and others.

This painting was executed by the master himself as model for the large [[strikethrough]] st [[/strikethrough]]  replicas made then in his atelier. These models by Greco are very rare, and of the very few in existence, this is the only one outside of Europe.

Prof. Gudiol states that this is by far the best Greco available here or in Europe. 

I should be obliged for the return of the photographs if