I had a very exciting bid for it with the French Government.

They wanted it for the Louvre, but of course at an auction the longest purse must win." "And this 'Arrest of Catiline' must be a Rubens.

One cannot mistake his splendid men and his infamous women." "Yes, it is a Rubens.

The other two are a Velasquez and a Teniers, fair specimens of the Spanish and of the Dutch schools.

I have only old masters here.