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The ART Quarterly Edited by W. R. VALENTINER and E. P. RICHARDSON Associate Editor PAUL L. GRIGAUT [[left margin]] CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE: ALFRED H. BARR, JR. Museum of Modern Art GERARD BRETT Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology WALTER HEIL M. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum HENRY-RUSSELL HITCHCOCK Smith College Museum of Art A. HYATT MAYOR The Metropolitan Museum of Art ULRICH MIDDELDORF Kunsthistorisches Institute, Florence WILLIAM M. MILLIKEN The Cleveland Museum of Art CHARLES F. MONTGOMERY The Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum DUNCAN PHILLIPS The Phillips Gallery JAKOB ROSENBERG Fogg Art Museum MARVIN C. ROSS Washington, D.C. HENRY PRESTON ROSSITER Museum of Fine Arts, Boston BENJAMIN ROWLAND, JR. Fogg Art Museum CARL O. SCHNIEWIND The Art Institute of Chicago CHARLES COLEMAN SELLERS Dickinson College LAURENCE SICKMAN William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art THEODORE SIZER Yale University WOLFGANG STECHOW Oberlin College JOHN STEEGMAN The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts RUDOLF WITTKOWER Columbia University OTTO WITTMANN, JR. The Toledo Museum of Art [[/left margin]] April 19, 1958 Mr. Germain Seligman 5 East 57th Street New York, New York Dear Mr. Seligman: Thank you very much for your letter of March 21 to Mr. Richardson, which has been turned over to me. We knew about the wonderful purchase by the National Gallery of your Philippe de Champaigne, and I quite realize of course the importance of such an acquisition. However, it has been our policy in the past not to use in the "Recent Accessions" works of art acquired by foreign countries. This might involve us too far, and we decided some time ago to confine ourselves to acquisitions from American and Canadian museums. But again, thank you for reminding us of this. With cordial regards, I am Very sincerely yours, [[signature]] Paul L. Grigaut Associate Editor PLG:em Editorial Office: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit 2, Michigan Advertising Representative: Peter Magill, 432 Fourth Avenue, New York 16, N. Y.