”Once having recovered from my disappointment at having to sell a perfectly good ‘Corot’ as a doubtful Pisarro I set to work to make a copy on mo­dern paper of the Corot drawing in the Fogg Museum, Harvard University. The purpose of the copy was to familiarise myself with the master’s portrait style suficiently well to make an original drawing in it. It might perhaps amuse you to test your own abilities as a connoisseur, and decide for yourself which of the two photographs (Figs 48 or 49) represents a detail from the original.”