Word: auctioneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rothschilds bought them in 1853. Duveen Bros., the London art dealers, got hold of them in 1897 and offered them to the Swiss National Museum for $1,250 apiece. While the Swiss deliberated, the elder J. P. Morgan snapped them up. In 1942, Honegger bought them at an auction of part of the Morgan Collection, had them fitted into window frames in his New York City home...