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VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
LONDON S.W. 7

20th January, 1969.

Dear Mr Seligmann,
You will by now have heard formally that the purchase of the marble Christ has been agreed. I am very happy that we have been able to secure it. There seems no doubt that it is Netherlandish, probably Liège, rather than French, and Theodor Müller, to whom I have shown the photographs, compares it convincingly with a number of works illustrated by Devigne, La Sculpture Mosan, 1932, pl. xviii. One of these, a King from an Adoration of the Magi (fig.81), is reproduced from a plaster cast in Brussels. Müller tells me that the original of this figure was owned by you in 1966. If this correct? If you have any further information about the provenance of the Christ, this would be very valuable.

Yours sincerely, 
John Pope-Hennessy

John Pope-Hennessy
Director

Mr. Germain Seligmann
Jacques Seligmann, Inc.,
5, East 57th Street,
New York 22,
N.Y.,
U.S.A.