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HARVARD UNIVERSITY . FOGG MUSEUM OF ART
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

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May 29, 1940

Mr. Robert M. Levy
Jacques Seligmann and Company, Inc.
3 East 51st Street
New York, New York

Dear Bob:

It seems to be that I do know of some sanguine drawings by Rembrandt in this country, but at the moment I can only give you accurate information about one, the self portrait in Mr. Lessing Rosenwald's collection. I recall a seated figure of an old man with a cloak thrown across his shoulders, and I have been badgering my memory trying to recall who owns it but to no avail.

The Rosenwald figure was the only sanguine in the Rembrandt show at Chicago and Worcester, and there was only one sanguine, as I recall, in the 1935 Amsterdam Rembrandt exhibition. That was the one from Stockholm.

Are you in a dreadful hurry for further information, because if you want me to take time over it I can look up the matter and perhaps give you some really conclusive dope, but I am terribly rushed just now and I could not get to it before the end of next week, if then. The proof has begun to come in quite fast, and I have got to keep up with it.

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