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THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
CLEVELAND 6, OHIO, U.S.A.
UNIVERSITY CENTER STATION

WILLIAM MATHEWSON MILLIKEN, DIRECTOR
CABLE ADDRESS: MUSART CLEVELAND

May 6, 1952

Mr. Germain Seligman
Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc.
5 East 57th Street
New York 22, New York

My dear Germain:

It was a great pleasure to have you here, even if it was for so brief a time, and we enjoyed having you. Your letter arrived this morning and I hasten to answer the various items included in it. We should like to have for the summer the following Redons:

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#7964 - Exhibition Catalogue No. 12 "St. Georges"
#7971 - Exhibition Catalogue No. 13 "A la Derive"
#7969 - Exhibition Catalogue No. 14 "St. Sebastian"

It is to be hoped that we can manage to keep one or more of these and I assume that you do not mind their spending the summer here.

The second item concerns Fragonard. In the Mrs. Rainey Rogers Collection there was a very small portrait head in oil, "Young Boy Dressed in a Red-lined Cloak". I think it is quite obviously a portrait. It is a lovely little picture, but no one appears to know who the sitter is. The painting was published in our Bulletin of April 1942, where it was reproduced on the inside cover. It is listed in the catalogue of Fragonard's work by Pierre de Nolhac. "J. H. Fragonard" was the title of the book, Paris 1936, page 114. Otherwise, we have nothing listed nor is there, to my knowledge, anything in Cleveland.

Mr. Milliken asks me to tell you that the catalogue of the Museum in Munich was the exhibition "Ars Sacra".

In the matter of the Wallace Collection inventory, I am turning your letter over to Miss Foote, as it will be she who will in due course dig out for you anything which may have belonged at Bagatelle and now here in Cleveland. You may then communicate with her further about photographs. I am delighted also to have the photographs of your wonderful Delacroix drawing which of course I know well. ??

My very best to Ethlyne. I do hope you both have a good trip. I envy you Paris in May.

With warm regards,

Ever yours,
Henry
Henry S. Francis,
Curator of Paintings and Prints

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