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New York 22, N. Y.

February 6, 1962

Dear Mr. Wick:

What speed and efficiency your Department is showing indeed and do have my thank you for your so very kind lines of February 5th.

I am of course happy to hear that Mrs. Thomas B. Card purchased the ANGRAND, "Cour de ferme" drawing and to learn thus, by the same token that she has kept up the interest and taste she showed when she was still Mr. Thomas Metcalfe's wife.

When I send her my firm's invoice - as you indicate - I shall enclose a little note to express my pleasure of having heard about her again.

I have also noticed your optimism as regards the fate of the other three drawings and will be looking forward to hearing further from you.

You are asking about data on the Jules DUPRE landscape drawings purchased by John  Goelet. I am afraid there is little - not to say nothing that I can add to the invoice forwarded to him at the time, namely, that its dimensions are 17-3/4" x 24-1/2" and is signed and dated lower right Jules Dupre, 1833, and stems from the two collections of Alfred Sensier and M. Sensier. furthermore, it was exhibited in my firm's Master Drawings Exhibition, October 23-November 11, 1961, No. 18.

Mr. Perry Rathbone's plan of organizing a Barbizon School exhibition is a splendid one indeed. The renewed interest in the choice works by the leading artists of that period has already been resumed for the past few years - as you have no doubt witnessed - and the exhibition will give this trend an official endorsement.

With kindest regards,

Sincerely yours,

Germain Seligman

Peter Arms Wick, Esq.
Assistant Curator, Dept. of Prints
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston 15, Mass.
P.S. Please convey my best regards to Anne.