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[begin page 5 of 9] M. KNOEDLER & CO., 556-558 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. PARIS, 23 PLACE VENDÔME. LONDON, 15 OLD BOND STREET. CABLE ADDRESSES KNOEDLER NEW YORK PARIS LONDON of Europe. When he died they passed to his son and so on for four generations of the Dukes of Orleans. Phillip Egalité being the last of that house to possess them. In 1792, when the Revolution broke forth, Phillip decided to sell them, being in need of finances for the furtherance of his political projects. The collection was divided into two parts. Those pictures of the Italian and French schools which composed the first were purchased by Monseiur Walkeurs, a banker of Brussels for the sum of 750,000 livres. The second division, being those of the Flemish, Dutch, and German schools was sold to Mr. Thomas Moore Slade for 350,000 francs. Monseiur Walkeurs in turn sold his part to M. Laborde de Mereville for 900,000 francs. He was a man of rank and fortune, and bought them with the idea of [end page 5 of 9]