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HARVARD UNIVERSITY • FOGG MUSEUM OF ART
CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS 

May 13, 1947

Mr. Germain Seligman 
Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc.
5 East 57th Street 
New York, N.Y. 

Dear Mr. Seligman. 

It was just a chance I dropped in yesterday morning. Over the week-end there hadn't bee [[been]] a free moment, for I was still working on the exhibition at the Century Club until half past one on Sunday. I have a plane reservation home yesterday noon and an appointment with Alfred Barr at 11:00. As usual, I tried to work in too much, and thought that I might be able to have a few words with you. 

I have one specific question to put to you and perhaps you can look up the matter in your records and tell me the answer. Last week I had called to my attention Diego Angeli's volume, I Bonaparti a Roma. The volume is a posthumous one edited by his daughter. One of the illustrations is a detail of the drawing by Ingres of the Family of Lucien Bonaparte. Beneath the reproduction is the information that the drawing was from the collection of Count Primoli, in the possession of Museo Napoleonico in Rome. 

I was a little startled to see such a legend beneath the photograph in a book published in 1938, for Mr. Winthrop acquired his drawing from the firm of Jacques Seligmann in 1936. I know that errors occur, because of the books published on Ingres in recent years represented the drawing as in the possession of the Louvre. 

The drawing reproduced in the Angeli volume must be the same as that now in the Fogg Museum, because according to the records, ours was formerly in the collection of