The Metropolitan Museum of Art has received as a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Herbert N. Straus five folio volumes of engravings of the works of Watteau. Until recently the volumes were in the Jan Six art collection which was auctioned in Amsterdam in October for nearly $1,000,000.
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